Business woes can drive gallery owners up the walls

Speaking passionately, as an artist and art-gallery owner should, Garth Mudge, whose glass-blowing business in Estes Park probably came before family one too many times, uses clich?s more common than the life he’s lived.

“Location, location, location,” Mudge said. “And hard work. And sacrifice. I’ve sacrificed a lot. I got divorced last year, and part of it is due to the fact I work so hard. My wife was always wanting me to take a vacation.”

Most art-gallery owners love art, but they talk about a lot of things besides art. Their worries are those of a small-business person: customer traffic, lack…