For the past three decades as the bustle of downtown ebbed and flowed, artist Gregory Myrick was a constant fixture on the north end of Johnson Square, selling prints of his original oil paintings.
He has watched the landscape change, he said, yet remained a part of its history. A history that began in Savannah as the only black student in his college painting classes and traversed to the longest consecutive busker downtown.
Myrick wanted to do it his own way. And he did.
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His love of art comes from his mother, said Myrick. Growing up in Key West, Florida, he watched her create wood burns from cedar and work alongside artist Mario Sanchez.