CAROL GESSELL In Pursuit of Art
The attractive, fiftyish artist concentrates on cutting in her scroll pattern in the cased leather. A book on tape plays in the background. An orange cat, Minkey, ignores both the woman and the mystery thriller. At 19, she needs her beauty sleep. When the woman begins to stamp out the pattern, the cat leaves the small, converted garage for a quieter place.
Carol Gessell was raised in Seattle, Washington, only a couple of hours away from where she works tonight. But her Monroe shop is a lifetime away from where she spent her childhood.
Carol lived in Seattle until she was eight. Then her family moved out into the country, and she got a
