The Gallery is a beautifully restored store front featuring Bates’ paintings, prints and other creations. While it is not the only way to see Bates’ work, it makes for a wonderful tour.

The jocular presence of Bates himself only enhances the experience; strike up a conversation and you might be lucky enough to see his studio, which makes up the back half of the lower floor – a seemingly haphazard collection of finished and unfinished paintings, prints and engravings, as well as stacks of books, shelves of tools and other singular curiosities.

West Meadow Press contains all of Bates’ printing press equipment and functions as a separate workspace. The divide between the Gallery and the Press is a very conscious barrier for Bates, who sees the print shop as a space for production, and the gallery as more of a display area – or in Bates’ playfully self-deprecating terms: ‘storage.’