Deeply ‘rooted’ on Company Street
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Cliff Williams / TPI Debra Wilson has taken on the art studio space on Company Street in Wetumpka once occupied by her mentor Don Sawyer. The space on the outside looks a lot the same but the paintings are of Wilson’s trees instead of Sawyer’s Hollywood Fish.

Trees are starting to “grow” in place of Don Sawyer’s Hollywood Fish in downtown Wetumpka.

It took a health scare and urging from Sawyer, but Debra Wilson is the newest artist on Company Street in Sawyer’s old studio. Four years ago, Wilson hadn’t picked up a paint brush but a bout with COVID-19 had her looking at life in a different way.

Cliff Williams is a staff writer for Tallapoosa Publishers.

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