Gossamer Gllery
Gossamer Gallery and Gifts Lois started looking for a space, found one… and started taking to walking various Art Walks.
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the part that intrigues me the most about doing these interviews are the incredible business owners and people I get to meet. By Candice Smiley
Here is Lois Hannam, who left her corporate job, found herself in a period of transition and knew she didn’t want to go back to the corporate world. She had long had a desire to own her own business. At one point in time, had even seriously considered buying a yarn shop, but had that particular opportunity “snatched out” from under her. At this point, Lois pauses, sighs, and says, “Can I be honest? I knew that I was going to make fudge. And the rest, well I wasn’t really too sure, but I did know that it would all work out. My sister, in Cape Breton, owned a shop that sold fudge and everyone loved it, so while I didn’t have a solid written business plan, (still don’t!), I knew that fudge was a direction I was going.”
If it wasn’t for these art walks 'it's possible,'' Lois says, that “Gossamer would have been just another country store”. Of all the artisans she spoke to, it was the artists that seemed to jump at the chance. And so, Gossamer became an Art Gallery.
“I like photography and I can do drawing, but I don’t have a fine arts degree or any formal training,” Lois says. She treats the gallery as a living organism, allowing it and its growth to simply, “Go with the flow.” Success and growth came quickly, as artists told other artists, who in turn told other artists
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