Gallery Artists
Bee Adams
Bee has been a professional artist for more than 40 years, spanning time in Brussels and Denver where she was the featured artist in several shows.
Since relocating to Asheville some years ago, she captures the buildings and scenes from our local area. Her acrylic paintings are as joyful and colorful as her personality.
Shela Anmuth
Working primarily in oil/cold wax, and acrylic, Shela’s vibrant abstract work is the epitome of spontaneity and exploration. In addition to being beautiful, her colorful images evoke a kind of mystery, like long-forgotten memories.
Barb Applebaum
Barb majored in Art Ed. at Boston University and graduated from Wayne State University. Over the years, she has done many different types of art, most recently "off-loom" beaded jewelry that she sold locally.
"The pandemic changed all this and I decided to play with other ways to do art. I have always loved collage. I tried various techniques with different papers: magazines, my own artwork, altered papers, torn newspapers, etc. Tearing the newspaper feels like I am actually 'painting' with the paper instead of paint. I use no paint in my work - only newspaper."
Stacy Bailey
Weaving baskets has been an important part of my life since the 1980’s. I learned the craft from Betty Kemink who hosted weekly classes in a tiny house in Dunedin, Florida. This home was made for basket weaving with roughhewn flooring that could get wet, no furnishings except for large, sturdy tables to weave on, folding chairs, racks of dyed reed and large tubs to soak material in.
I was hooked after my first project — a round reed berry basket. Once I got the feel for reed and understood the bendability of the material, I came to enjoy the meditative nature of basket weaving.
Today, I mostly weave with round reed and incorporate yarn, denim strips, flat reed, and other natural finds into my baskets, with some adornments for further uniqueness.
I also enjoy making ribbed baskets with honeysuckle and grapevine rims and handles harvested from my yard during my walks in the woods. I don’t typically follow patterns, allowing the materials to speak to me as I weave ensuring each basket is truly unique.
Basket weaving is not an easily transported craft and requires space and water. I enjoy weaving most at home in the kitchen and at my Re.Imagine studio where I can let my creative spirit become one with the basket.
As a photographer I have always been concerned with how light reacts with a surface. Interior as well as exterior light has a certain quality that is somehow both dramatic and yet somehow comforting. The color of the light and the reflective quality of how light bounces off surfaces to create interesting forms and shapes have inspired me to create my body of work.
By using the camera in a fluid way and post visualizing the final image, I can encounter a new reality. The photographic act consists of entering a space of intimate complicity, not to master it, but to play along with it and to demonstrate that nothing has been decided yet. The instantaneity of photography is not to be confused with the simultaneity of real time. The flow of pictures produced and erased in real time is indifferent to the fluid dimension of the photographic moment.
In a sense, the photographic image materially translates a sense of reality, which is so
obvious and so easily accepted because we already have the feeling that it is real, yet we are never in the real presence of the object. Between reality and its image, there is an impossible exchange. At best, one finds a visual correlation between reality and the image.
Don Bevirt
boball
'boball' was part of Highwater Center, a cheap rent coalition in Biltmore in the eighties. As a fabric dyer bo sewed kites and small "birbs" to display his wares.
The use of fabric, as a social totem, is historic. It communicates. The use of beautiful African fabrics is a message of emerging reparations to descendants of enslaved black Americans and a message of..."Look here" to all others.
Paul Christopher
Photography through the eyes of a native Ashevillain. I've got a really great wife and a cool dog and then there is me.
Mary Doll & Linda Doll Cluxton — Merlin's Angel
Merlin’s Angel presents craft jewelry “with a Celtic flair.” It began with beaded jewelry created by Mary Doll for the Celtic Fairs she worked for decades around the country. Linda Doll Cluxton worked many of the Celtic shows with her sister Mary and inherited her inventory of both jewelry and gemstone beads.
Linda started her own collection of crafted gemstone jewelry with a wearable, fun Western North Carolina feel. She writes, “Merlin was Mary’s nickname, and now she is among the Angels.” Linda loves the healing nature of the gemstones and honors her sister’s memory with profits from her jewelry going to local food banks.
Joanna D’Andrea
A native New Englander, nature lover, an elementary classroom teacher for over thirty years, and always an artist, Joanna has long experimented with pencils, paints, and fabrics as outlets for creative expression.
Initially interested in clothing construction, quilting, and art quilting, her interests in watercolors, portrait drawing, and ZIA (Zentangle Inspired Art) shifted for focus in yet another direction!
She has been a member of the Asheville Quilt Guild, Mountain Art Quilters, Fairview Area Art League, and SAQA.
Sue Dolamore
Sue Dolamore has been painting since 2014 when her last child was finishing high school. She began taking classes at ABTech and soon found herself painting with and eventually coordinating Asheville’s large plein air community.
During this time, Sue focused primarily on the landscape and played with many different media. She gained a strong foundation in the basics of painting in acrylic, oil, and watercolor.
She opened a studio in the River Arts District in July 2019 and with space to play, she began to delve into new techniques including more abstract work. By removing the representational information, another level of experience is accessible which allows for exciting discoveries about perception, emotions, and meaning.
Sue now has work that synthesizes both her representational painting with the abstract and enjoys teaching a full spectrum of techniques.
Terrilynn Dubreuil
Travel and art share a life-enriching and creative partnership in this artist’s life. She has a passion for exploring new places throughout the world and creating original art with a focus on pastel painting but also uses watercolor, photography, and other media. The joy of life, creative expression, and spiritual sensitivity are the characteristics of her artwork. Color, light, and texture convey a balance between impressionism and realism.
Augmenting a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, she has studied Master level courses and pursued opportunities to expand her personal knowledge and creative resources. She has been teaching various media and techniques for thirty-five years, including many Pastel Societies, the Asheville Art Museum, and other studios. Various classes, workshops, and demos – live and virtually – keep her delving for more learning herself.
Terrilynn is a juried member of the Pastel Society of America (PSA), an active member and volunteer of the International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS), a Signature and Board member of the Pastel Society of Maine (PSME) and the Appalachian Pastel Society (APS), and various other international organizations. She exhibits and sells artwork in diverse venues, and has received multiple top awards at juried International Shows.
Paula Entin has been quilting for several decades and is frequently accepted into juried quilt shows around the country. She had a one-person show at the NC Arboretum in the fall of 2019.
She is a member of the Asheville Quilt Guild, the Mountain Art Quilters, and the Fairview Area Art League.
Her current focus is the juxtaposition of both hard and soft materials, outside of traditional art quilts and cotton fabrics, that gives the viewer a deeper look into the things that surround us on a daily basis. Fabric, leather, steel, wood, and glass touch us and show us our world. She strives to incorporate unlikely partnerships, to upcycle, and to open up the viewers’ minds concerning fiber art and how it can live in our homes.
Paula Entin
For over thirty years Bill Everett taught Christian Social Ethics in Catholic, Methodist, and inter-denominational seminaries in the US, as well as in India, Germany, and South Africa. He has written numerous academic books and articles as well as poetry, a memoir, and an eco-historical novel.
In 2000 he began building round communion tables and related furniture for churches and chapels from North Carolina to Massachusetts. He has been turning bowls since 2002. Living in Waynesville, NC, he draws on native hardwoods from the southern Appalachians for his creations. Many of his bowls and tables incorporate mosaics and precious stone inlays, where he is helped by his wife Sylvia, a noted artist working in many media around spiritual and religious themes. Their website is www.WisdomsTable.net .
Bill Everett
Nick Gentile
I am an artist living in Asheville, North Carolina who works with metals, found objects, and century-old machine parts to fabricate sculptures that embrace and punctuate the raw materials used in their design and construction.
I explore the haunting abstraction of biological and mechanical to reimagine elements of industry to create something new yet familiar. My work utilizes a variety of self-taught metalworking skills including forming, welding, brazing, and casting.
Don Gilman
Don Gilman is a resident of Asheville. His whimsical designs are made of hand-forged copper and locally obtained stones in their natural state.
In addition to displaying at Re.Imagine Gallery, he is a cast member of Marquee Asheville and volunteers at Haw Creek Forge located in the Mill at Riverside.
Marcia Gleason
At the heart of my creative process is a desire to create unity. Looking back on my life, I have seen this principle unfold in many ways. I have had a long career as a psychotherapist working with individuals and couples as well as leading workshops and training programs. The process of assisting others in integrating fragmented parts of themselves into an experience of wholeness is to me, a form of art.
Twenty-five years ago, I began quilting. I was drawn to the process of using fragments of colorful cloth and transforming them into fabric art. Subsequently I became certified in a powerful method of integrating art with personal growth called SoulCollage®, in which I now teach classes. Collage involves the same principle of fusing together various images to discover something new and transcendent about ourselves.
Recently my emphasis has shifted to mixed media art because I love combining different materials and seeing what happens. My current work combines various molding textures and gels that are then embellished with acrylic paint. Finally, I add elements of both handmade and found objects.
Contact: marciawgleason@gmail.com
Being the daughter of a crafter, I’ve created for as long as I can remember. Making mosaic “anything” had been my favorite for over 25 years.
About 10 years ago I decided the space over my garage needed “something.” When I couldn’t find art I liked, I realized I’d have to create it myself. That’s when I discovered the joy of designing and painting barn quilts, scaled down in size for houses and gardens.
I’ve taught barn quilt techniques for several Asheville area art centers and also create traditional and non-traditional barn quilt designs in my Outdoorable Art business.
Nancy Grindstaff
I am Ellen “EJ” Haack and I’ve lived in Fairview since 2016. Born in rural Michigan, nature has always been important in my life. I started sewing and designing in 4-H. I began painting water colors while traveling as an adult. Oil painting has become important in the past six years.
My work is color-driven and neurographically changing, evolving into collages incorporating fabric, water color and oils, pencils and inks.
Ellen Haack
I am a fiber and bead artist living and working in Fairview, North Carolina. Early in my 32-year career in upholstery fabric design and product development, I discovered needle-weaving with seed beads as a portable, meditative medium in which I could engage while traveling frequently on business. Since retiring from the textile industry in 2020, I have continued to pursue my passion for beadwork and have taken the opportunity to get back to my fiber art “roots.” I find nature and music to be my strongest healing and nurturing forces and my greatest inspirations. Most recently I am enjoying eco-printing unique compositions of leaves, flowers, and dyes on silk.
In 2021, I entered my first juried art competition at the Museum of Beadwork in Portland, Maine. My piece entitled “Petalura” won the grand prize and is currently in the museum’s collection.
In addition to beads and fiber art, I enjoy reading, hiking, singing, cooking, scuba diving, and my dogs. I treasure time with my family and friends.
Sara Hall
Wren Hendrickson
"My jewelry evolves from my heart and is inspired by the flow and patterns in the natural environment around me.
I create my jewelry using traditional fabrication techniques, meaning that everything I make is individually crafted by hand in the metal itself, without molds or casting. Because of this, each piece is unique and individual, and while I have a distinct style, and follow similar design themes, they are never exactly the same. A lot of my designs are completely one-of-a-kind. They speak to me, as I make them, and I listen and let them flow, from my hands, heart, and mind.
I love the special meaning jewelry has in peoples' lives and the ways it is used to celebrate events and feelings. I like creating art that I hope will be valued for its meaning for future generations. I love creating special custom pieces or recycling old jewelry into something new and personal."
Wren is a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild and will create pieces on commission
Throughout life art has always been Philip Hulsey’s passion, but never a full-time pursuit. Careers in Art Education and Landscape Design provided creative outlets for the artist, however his preferred medium of painting lent inspiration and a truer sense of accomplishment. Three major series of paintings gain prominence: The Liquid Series, abstractions about movement and change, Journey of the Orbs, surrealistic images which represent a spiritual search, and The Chakras, predominately realistic plant vortices inspired by Philip’s interest in the metaphysical and his love of plants and nature. Living systems, plants, and water are constant sources of creative stimulation.
Originally a Virginian, an adventurist spirit and desire for change led Philip to South Florida and New Orleans. Upon retirement Asheville became home where the full-time pursuit of art began. A new concept, Tribal Spirit Masks, was born. These sculptures, created from gourds and natural materials mostly found in the wilderness, celebrate nature and give the artist a fresh new approach to his art.
Phil Hulsey
Dana earned a BFA in graphic design at University of Georgia with post-graduate studies at Tyler School of Art in Pennsylvania, Art Students League in NY, School of Visual Arts in NY, and Pythagorian Art Institute, Samos, Greece.
Her career as Art Director for national book and magazine publishers spanned 35 years in New York City, San Francisco, and Asheville, NC. Presently she is a member of the Saints of Paint, a collective funding non-profits and artists based in Asheville, NC.
Her artwork has been shown at Greenville Museum of Art in SC, Upstairs Gallery in Tryon, NC, Semi-Public in Asheville, NC and is found in collections in the US and Europe. Her painting, Blue Ridges at Craggy, was selected to be part of an international exhibit in the US embassy in Pristina, Kosovo, 2019-2021. The exhibit is known as Art in the Embassies Program, US Department of State.
She freelances graphic design, creates art from her home studio, and works as an assistant at here at Re.Imagine.
Dana Irwin
April Johnson is an artist/photographer with 20+ years of experience. Her home based studio is located in the serene mountains of Hendersonville in WNC.
April has dual BFA degrees, a Fine Art Photography degree from School of Visual Arts in NYC, and the second a Fine Art Degree from Kent State University. She has an undeniable passion for animals, capturing and celebrating them with her portraiture.
April Johnson
Long before I first peered through the lens of a camera, I fell in love with the natural world. As a boy, I felt the wonderment of nature stir in my soul. As I grew, this profound relationship with the Earth also grew and one day, my inner artist awoke. With the camera as my tool, I came to see the world in a new way. As the awareness of the light around developed, so did the light within. The instantaneous capture of a moment in time becomes eternal when shared and experienced through the eyes of others. Each of you are part of this process.
southimage@bellsouth.net
828-299-7867
David Koll — Southern Image Photoworks
Multifaceted is a good description of my work. I design and create jewelry and oil, acrylic and alcohol ink paintings and prints. I enjoy sharing my ideas and methods by teaching a variety of art classes and workshops.
Art in various forms has always been part of my life and a way for me to express myself. My mother was my first influence in being creative when I was very young. I see color and designs all around me. I am constantly jotting down ideas for paintings and love learning new techniques. I have painted for over 45 years. I trained in oils and acrylic, but fell in love with alcohol ink and water colors. I love to wear jewelry and feel like wearing it is art. When I create my jewelry my hope is that others will enjoy wearing it as well.
I grew up in Levittown, PA and moved to Asheville 36 years ago where I have raised my two children and found my wonderful husband. Asheville is also home to JLArt studio. Asheville’s beautiful surroundings have become part of my art.
I have a degree in education and minor in art. I believe that being creative is an important part of our wellbeing. I am happiest when I am working in my studio creating something.
Life is sweeter when art is present.
Janetlink99@gmail.com or etsy.com/it/shop/JLArtandCraftStudio
Janet Link — JLArt
Born and raised in New York City, I developed a talent for drawing at a young age and began my life long journey as a creative. I attended the High School of Art & Design, graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design from The School of Visual Arts, and had a long successful career in publishing as a designer and Creative Director for various parenting, pregnancy and women’s magazines.
After 25 years I left my career to become a Professional Organizer and Reiki Master, wanting to help others in any way I could. Looking for a less stressful lifestyle, my husband and I moved to Fletcher in 2019, and of course we got a dog, a mini Goldendoodle named Jackson. My creative passions are vintage photography, digital collage, making jewelry and anything having to do with paper.
Stacy Martin
Yvette Monroe
As a Fairview resident since 2015 who is incredibly grateful to be here, I’m delighted to be part of Re-Imagine Gallery. Long fascinated by the beauty of gemstones, I harmonize natural (undyed) gemstones with silver, 22k gold vermeil, gold fill, bronze and titanium; hand working metal, setting stones, and threading the gems. It’s a joy to work with these natural pieces of color, energy, and light, exploring the endless possibilities.
www.yvettemonroe.com - yvette@yvettemonroe.com
I was born and raised in Southern California and moved to Northern California after retiring from the corporate environment in 2004 where I worked as a Corporate Communications, Public Relations and Corporate Event Planning Consultant. My work over the years allowed me to travel to many parts of the world.
In 2017 my husband and I moved from California to Asheville after the devastating fires of 2015 took away the community we loved and many of our friend’s homes as well. After helping friends get back on their feet we decided we needed a fresh start and here we are. We found a lovely home in Fletcher which borders Fairview and we are on the Buncombe County side of Fletcher. Our new home has enough room to house my studio and the basement houses my husbands woodworking shop.
I have been an avid quilter, quilt designer, long arm quilter, and sewer for over 20 years. In addition to quilting and sewing, I also am passionate about making handbags and totes out of interesting fabrics, and enjoy dyeing fabric, painting on fabric, watercolor, pyrography, beading, jewelry making, book art, and just about anything that lets me express my creative self. I have taught both sewing and quilting classes in California. I currently teach classes in Alcohol Inks, Fluid Art (Acrylic Paint Pouring), Folded Book Art and Sewing at Purple Crayon Asheville.
When I am not teaching or taking classes, I bicycle both here in Asheville and around the world; I take classes at UNC OLLI, and volunteer my time at the Folk Art Center, and at the Veterans Restoration Quarters helping to make food and serving the Veterans that live there.
Deana Murchison
Aneliese Parker
I was born in the Midwest into a family of readers and teachers and close to nature and books. And, let’s be real, also glued to the television watching Gilligan’s Island, Johnny Carson and M*A*S*H. Ha ha!
All of this informs my work which I describe as “narrative art,” a term I first heard from George Lucas. I like the term because it covers all my own forms of artistic expression: from illustration to cartooning to animation to songwriting. I like most things (and people) that are infused with tension, humor and heart.
I work in pencil, ink and watercolor pencils for illustration and cartooning, and natural stone and glass beads for jewelry.
Jeff Snell
Jeff creates works in vibrant mixed media and describes his pieces as "windows into volatile spaces."
He takes photographs, manipulates them in Photoshop, and then collages them onto the canvas, where he'll paint over and around them. He's constantly experimenting with different techniques while allowing for unintended surprises to happen along the way.
The result is a cohesive juxtaposition of wildly imaginative abstract imagery and soothingly tranquil open spaces. "The environments have a tumultuous landscape feel--enchanged places with pockets of lushness and calm. But there's lots of movement and swirling energy in a state of flux, just like real life."
Using traditional Asian brushes, inks and watercolors on rice paper, Lynn Stanley creates both classic ink-only and innovative ink and watercolor paintings fusing Asian and Western styles and techniques. She has studied with masters of calligraphy and painting in both China and the United States. Her work has been exhibited in Washington DC, New York, Sarasota, FL, as well as Asheville, and has won awards from the Sumi-e Society of America and the Sarasota Sumi-e Society.
Lynn Stanley
Jan Widner
As a Contemporary Abstract artist, Jan has expanded the abstract concept to mixed media collage. She creates all her own papers using mono-printing and scraps from her previous works and rearranges them into compositions that inspire emotions and storytelling.
She has a BFA and has been lovingly teaching the fundamentals of art to young kiddos in her home studio going on 20 years. Currently, her works are in two galleries in Asheville/Fairview and online at SaatchiArt.com.
Jan continues to experiment with new techniques and concepts developing a body of work that is beyond the norm.
Roz Young
Roz (a.k.a. Rosilyn Young) has been painting professionally for over 20 years. Originally a Yankee and confirmed city-girl, she moved to Texas in the 1990's. At one point many years ago, she and her children spent a year on a ranch in West Texas-and there her love for painting roosters and cows was born. While the owners of the ranch may have viewed the animals as potential meals, Roz saw them as giant, messy, amusing pets.
Now living in North Carolina, she still fondly recalls the cows that would jump the fence and be wandering in her yard waiting for the treats she would give them, or chasing the roosters around (for hours) who got out of the pens.
Roz's love for painting has been with her since she was a child. Professional, driven and prolific are words she uses to describe her work ethic. When it comes to painting itself, she is happily and chronically obsessed.
Her work has sold to many galleries, shops, designers, celebrities, authors, politicians and art lovers from all walks of life. References are available upon request.