great store with all hand made, TEXAS artist. Very original and great shop owners that go above and beyond to make customers happy. Great place to shop for gifts for all occasions.
March 2020
Fantastic place to visit when you are in Round Top. The owners are so passionate about art and are wonderful people. Be sure to look at the copper lamps. Take one home, we have 3 and love them.
March 2020
Extremely friendly. Majority of the artists featured are Texans. A true fine art gallery.
Gerald Tobola, award winning copper artist, left the corporate world in 2003, and transitioned from hobbyist to a full-time artisan. He has worked exclusively in copper for over twenty years. Gerald's first work was one of necessity as he explains, "I had a Mesquite lamp base in need of a shade, that in my mind, had to be copper." Gerald found that he was drawn to copper - a material that is malleable and forgiving, but its surface is unpredictable, each piece reacting to its environment, developing its own patina as it ages. His love of nature, especially tree leaves, is his top inspiration.
Gerald and Debbie, his wife, owned and managed Copper Shade Tree Gallery in Round Top, Texas for 15 years. Gerald has appeared on HGTV, a national
