PRAIRIE CITY — “I have a deer in my studio,” David Seacord announced, “but it’s getting ready to hop out.”

Seacord’s studio is an open-air space tucked between his house trailer and a steep, grassy hillside on the fringes of Prairie City, and sometimes the deer wander in. It’s covered with a white polyethylene tarp stretched over a pole frame the size of a carport, and it’s dominated by a 4-by-8-foot wooden table, with shelving underneath, that provides a flat work surface. A smaller table and shelves hold containers of paint and other tools of his trade.