Christopher Park Gallery

Twenty-five years ago, Shannon McGee walked the streets of the medieval French town of Foix where he was teaching English. Though he visited museums, castles and ancient villages all over Europe, he never really thought of becoming an artist. Upon returning stateside, he began working for a large corporation. Ten years later, he left the office and opened an antiques store on Greenville’s up and coming Main Street. Two years later, he left a thriving Main Street for the West End; however, 1998 turned out to be a few years too early. The move proved fruitful in a different way as McGee found a demand for his artistic talent of transforming drab concrete walls and floors into something special.

Shannon has taken the techniques used in his interior finishes, and applied them to canvas to create original pieces of art that can be hung in smaller spaces for a nod to the past in a new and unexpected way.