My painting studio and gallery occupy a historic building that was a dry goods store belonging to George Y. Bird, the first mayor of Gainesville, Texas. The building is covered in visible stories of its previous tenants: like the top of the arched doorway cut through the original 1800s sarsaparilla mural from when it was Bird Dry Goods; and the oil spills, automotive paint splatters and visible traffic patterns worn in the original wooden floors by my grandfather’s feet when it became his auto parts store in the 1940s.
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