Art Highlands
We Are Open Winter ~ 1-5 Wednesday - Saturday
by Appointment Daily - Within 25 Minutes
Happy Presidents’ Weekend - Open Daily Thru Monday
ABOUT US:
Art Highlands is a modern eclectic art gallery, located on the picturesque Highlands-Cashiers Plateau in western North Carolina. We are dedicated to bringing unique art to the region, offering a curated selection from across the world. Mixed media, bronze, steel, and glass sculpture, paintings, collage, one-of-a-kind jewelry, wearable art, digital art, and rare antiquities are on display from the USA, Mexico, Canada, Asia, Europe, and Africa. This expansive range of fine art serves local enthusiasts, travelers looking for unique and special items, the discerning collector, and the design trade with the most interesting assortment of fine art and collectibles.
Co-Owner Beata Gola is an art director, interior designer, and lifestyle expert. Preferring to create environments that are personal and creative, her signature style juxtaposes decor and art that ranges from contemporary to bohemian, elegant to rustic. Beata finds that art is transformational at the core, and that knowing both the artist and the customer personally she can help create a mood that is perfectly suited to any residence or commercial space.
For 47 years Dr. Steve Hinkey has pioneered healing techniques using art and conversation to transform even the most difficult cases of health, depression, trauma, or conflict, while elevating the client to stunning new levels of visual acuity and appreciation for esoteric art. Creating his digital artwork during his healing sessions synchronize the brain, transform the viewer, and expand horizons — proven by science. He has worked with top research institutes, ashrams, interior designers, and architects to incorporate and integrate transformational art into daily life.
Art Highlands Gallery
Artists
Matt Betty — Fun Boats and Faces
Kyle Hollingsworth - Mixed Media Birds
John Gibson — Mixed Media 3-D Canoes Fish
Barbara Jamison — Abstract Naturalist
Harry James Moody — Abstractionist Master
Michael Hayden — Encaustic Mixed Media
Luis Sanchez — Abstract Painter & Sculptor
Charles Sherman — Glass & Metal Sculptor
Clara Berta — Abstract Pour Creatrix
Ann DerGara — Abstract Naturalist
Yari Ostovany — Abstract Micro Muralist
Florencia de Grandprey — Carpet Portraitist
Suzan Obermeyer — Nature and Spirit Maestro
Mark Bettis — Abstract Impressionist
Nabil ElJahuari — Aboriginal Wood Burn
Fred Free — Collage/Mixed Media Artist
Sunny Redmond — Collage & Photography
Kim DerGarabedian — Naturalist Painter
Wewer Keohane — Mixed Media Artist
James P Kerr — Impressionism Impresario
Paul Arsenault — Plein Air Du Jour
Colette Fairman — Naturalist Painter
Ashleigh Suarez — Still Life Painter
Colette Davis — Micro Landscapes
Rick Lazes — Glass & Metal Sculptor
Sarah Grossman — Pastel Wonders
Dr Steve Hinkey — Digital Art Creatrix
Ed Gilliam — Impressionist Delight (post)
Kenneth Noland — Treasure (posthumus)
Andrew Webber — Americana (posthumus)
65-75 Million Year Turtle Dinosaur
150 Year Burmese Temple Doors
300 Year Laotian Buddhas
150 Year Wooden Plow
Indonesian Bamboo Recliner
Solid Jade Buddha from Agra India
Harry James Moody
A recent book on renowned artist harry Moody celebrates one of the greatest contributors to the modern art scene, especially abstract art. His German beginning lead him to Karl Otto Götz, where Gerhard Richter was also student. Both mentored Harry before he went on to study with Joseph Beuys.
Once in America, he became one of the famed ‘Atwater 5’ who transformed the LA art scene, developed a huge global following. Many consider Harry one of the top 3 living abstract artists.
Spending an hour with Harry is like a lifetime unto itself. He is a magical presence filled with delightful tales, as he shares his intimate process for creation, showing tools and technique.
Owning his work will not only be an increasing asset, it will be a joy to gaze upon, and engage your mind , evolving your perception.
In making abstract concrete, be clear, be confident, and don’t overthink. The beauty is that you’re going to continue to evolve and your collection can evolve with it. If it feels great for right now, it is!
James P Kerr
James is a brilliant artist, a wildly popular impressionist delighting crowds with fun and interesting subjects.
From mountain scenes to farm animals to elegant motifs, the art dances with waves of brush strokes, as we step back to allow the image to sharpen. For discerning collectors, and all art lovers.
Sunny Redmond
Sunny is a magnificent collage artist and photographer living in Taos NM, in the heart of the pueblos, desert scenery, and old west. An artist’s dream location, and Sunny’s work delivers.
She was a top supermodel in the 1970’s. With her flaming red hair, and tall physique, top designers loved her. She gave it up to be a river guide on the Grand Canyon for many years, being one of the only guides to never dump a boat!
Her art relates global essence that’s architectural, natural, social, reclusive, civil, and raw. We think you’ll love it.
They’re crazy for Sunny’s collage at Stubborn Seeds new restaurant! Go check out both!
Paul Arsenault
Plein air maestro, always ready to capture the scene, have easel will travel and paint.
Widely collected in Naples and all his painting haunts from Cap d’Antibes to Maine to Highlands, Paul is expanding his art of the Appalachians, starting with our own Main Street, Lake Ravenel, and the Biltmore.
Luis Sanchez
Luis is a superlative creator of all things art. A true Renaissance man, he excels at figurative and abstract painting, found object mixed-media work, bronze figurative sculpture, murals, interior decorative art, and has even designed a line of artful ceramic clocks.
No matter where you immerse yourself in his ways, you are sure to appreciate the incredible detail and the passion in his work.
We currently house the last one of 5 magnificent bronzes, and several small and medium paintings that are his signature blend of exotic textures that inspire.
Clara Berta
Clara is another of our very advanced abstract artists that has a direct connection to expressing the heart of man and nature as living trust. She is renown, widely collected, has been seen on major TV design shows, and her work has graced movie sets. Her use of oceans of color, and ‘selective pours’ with intent to inspire, relax, and heal from within make a perfect fit for your home and office.
Charles Sherman
Much can be said about Charles, as his prolific career is exquisite to behold in all its forms.
Charles’ sculpture creations are based on a three-dimensional form of Mobius strip, sacred geometry.
An artist who holds love as the primary motive in all things, his creations can really enhance your entire collection, or be a great place to begin.
Charles’ work freshens and stimulates environments with love.
“If I could make one statement about art, it’s that the essence of art is that it's a verb, not a noun. It´s a process, and when you fully understand that, you let the art take its own course.”
Ann DerGara
When you’re 12 years old and pick up a brush, sell your first painting, then find yourself never having had a job other than ‘painter’, then you know how it feels to be Ann DerGara.
Award-winning, global-selling, prolific to the point of painting several pieces per week for decades, selling everything she makes…
Ann is an approachable, humble, and delightful person, who painted originals specifically for our gallery and you. She’ll come by this summer for you to dive deeper into her great life.
Lauded as a world class printmaker, etcher, and serigraph artist, Ann’s first love is painting - animals, nature, abstract…
Yari Ostovany
Yari is an amazingly clear and visionary guy.
His work infuses romantic and heart-opening colors dancing in fogs and permutations that inspire memories and dreams of landscapes and escapades, and are exceptionally photogenic.
We have several smaller pieces that at first look intriguing, then provocative, that fill a unique void in your home or office with deep inspirations.
Mark Bettis
Asheville’s own now in the mountains.
Renown for beautiful abstract representational vistas that inspire visions and memories of cities, villages, mountain views, etc, Mark is in demand.
His work provides a wonderful ambience. Color choices blend so well into shapes, symbols, and suggestions, that interior designers, art collectors, and less arty folks looking for a fun and wonderful piece all agree that Mark’s work is ripe for the picking.
He’s another artist that sells constantly, we’re fortunate to have him, and he’ll be coming here to meet you June 23.
Rick Lazes
Sculptor extraordinaire. Glass, metal, resin — wave after wave of elegant provocation. Including one of his famous paper doll acrylics.
Dr Steve Hinkey
Steve is in another category all together. He began generating art for the sole purpose of looking into his patients diagnostically with telepathic vision.
His patients overcome serious life-threatening disease and trauma, learn to navigate difficult life breakdowns, and integrate spiritual breakthroughs.
Eventually Dr Hinkey discovered his drawings are therapeutic and transformational as well, and revolutionized health care in medicine, alternative medicine, and esoteric healing. He then advanced the meditation community by drawing group meditations live during 800 global events, called Healing Theater, and now offers several types of drawings and mediums in the gallery. It is something special to take in.
John Gibson
The grand master of gourds, and renown creator of natural inspirations, John manifests heart-rendering wall sculpture, tribal mask, and elegant birch tree scenes.
John is an award-winning artist, who showed in Southern and Western cowboy towns, and is nearing the end of his amazing career.
Colette Fairman
Right out of Sherwood Forest, literally, Collette captures the essence of the forest with gleaming spiritual light breaking through the trees.
A popular addition to the gallery, her style adds a dimension to nature paintings that is rare, cherished, and appreciated.
Barbara Jamison
Local favorite Barbara Jamison graces our gallery, is on the cover of Laurel Magazine July issue, and joins us Thursday July 13, from 4-6pm, to share her delightful technique.
Prolific, with great flair for nature — in a signature style that inspires collecting — her art is both elegant and full of life force.
Those who know Barbara have great good fortune, and know her artistic ideals include serving our community through art boards and direction as well as creating great art.
Michael Hayden
Michael is a charming and delightful personality who shines in the studio and while entertaining. As an encaustic artist, he uses melted beeswax, pigments, oils, and resins to masterfully create lush colorful paintings with translucent luminosity.
‘Enkaustikos’ means “to heat or to burn”, and started in Greece around 4BC. Heat guns and torches fuse multiple layers of wax generating one of the most archival methods of painting, as pigments suspended in beeswax never fade.
Influenced by Jasper Johns, Rothko, and Diebenkorn, Michael invites you to a place of meditation and contemplation.
“Every painting tells a story. I spend a lot of time near the ocean studying colors and shapes from the sea to sky. I find endless inspiration in the horizon line.”
In our experience, those who gaze at Michael’s work are enchanted by the endless depth, and images that invoke memories or joyful dreams.
Suzan Lotus Obermeyer
Suzie hails from Aspen Colorado, as part of the great Obermeyer clan that have demonstrated the power of love and positive thinking in life, nature, and art for a very long time.
She has featured in dozens of shows, expos, and retreats with places like Aspen Anderson Ranch, generating work with a natural spiritual infusion that moves you.
Suzan sells everything she makes, between 2 major galleries. We are fortunate to be one of them, and to have her art on hand, with more arriving often. Stop in to look!
Comptes Florencia Clement de Grandprey
Having known Florencia for 15 years, it is amazing to watch her journey through such radical growth and transformation in art.
Known as a competitor, Flo entered about 100 art expos, challenges, prizes — having won or finished in the top 5 many times.
Her specialty is gorgeous paintings using carpet as canvas. She examines Navaho and other Native American rugs, as well as Persian and other rugs, until a face appears, then she reveals the face to us. Her subjects radiate soul and spiritual poise, and are sometimes famous people.
Fred Free
The absolute genuine nature of certain artists is one of the main joys of having a gallery to represent them. Amazingly this can be said of each and every one of our artists, especially Fred.
Fred’s nature has given him a lifetime of fans who appreciate his creations. While his style of presenting art is thorough and accomplished.
Fred sends every piece framed and dialed in exactly as he sees the total package to be. And you can practically see and feel the twinkle in his eye when you gaze at his work.
Wewer Keohane
Hailing from Aspen Colorado, Cattle Creek, and all that, Wewer is a mixed media maestro extraordinary in many mediums.
Her tea-bag kimono hang in museums across the world, while her book sculptures and paintings adorn exclusive collections as well.
We’ve just received a great mix of delightful paintings, book sculptures, and kimono, each piece opening vistas into a lovely lively imagination.
Colette Davis
Micro Muralist of gorgeous bright nature settings, make you smile at first glance, and dig in for some really lovely art in a small package.
Stop in for more.
