it's okay to buy the art!

the artworks on display here in the "Hideaway" are Giclee reproductions by some of our favorite high country artists from Wildflowers Fine Art publishers in Banner Elk, North Carolina! 100% of the proceeds from your purchase of these fine art reproductions goes directly to a local artist...some of them even stop in from time to time!

here are some of our favorites:

"Lum Miller's Place" by Greg Smith a North Carolina Mountain native, Greg has been painting since age 13. His original oils depicting local structures from bygone eras are sought after by collectors throughout our region.

St. John's Church-Valle Crucis by Deborah Jacobs-Purves Deborah Jacobs Purves’ art career began at the age of seven with classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Throughout grade school and high school she continued to indulge her passion for making art. After a brief stint in college in 1970, she moved to the U. S. Virgin Islands where she learned to sail, scuba dive, and windsurf, while working as a freelance illustrator, graphic designer, sign painter, and clothing artist. Inspired by the incredible natural beauty of the Caribbean, she began studying with nationally renowned watercolorist, Charles Hawes of St. Croix. After a life-altering experience in the form of Hurricane Hugo, Deborah made the decision to become serious about her career as a painter and moved to the beautiful North Carolina Mountains where she pursued a degree in fine art at Appalachian State University. Graduating in 1995 with Summa cum Laude honors, Deborah currently has a home and studio overlooking the Watauga River in Valle Crucis. Her original work in included in many private and corporate collections including Wachovia Bank, First Union Bank, CCB Bank, and Appalachian State University. She is currently represented by the Art Cellar Gallery in Banner Elk

Old Barn by Egidio Antonaccio Antonaccio Fine Art Giclees are available in any size-call for details. Antonaccio Fine Art (828) 963-5611

Giclee is a French word meaning “spraying of ink”. A giclee (zhee-CLAY) is an individually produced, high-resolution, high-fidelity reproduction done on a special large format printer. Giclees are produced from digital scans of existing artwork. Also, since many artists now produce only digital art, there is not an "original" that can be hung on a wall. Giclees solve that problem, while creating a whole new vibrant medium for art. Giclees were originally developed as a proofing system for lithograph printing presses, but it became apparent that the presses were having a hard time matching the quality and color of the giclee proofs. They evolved into the new darlings of the art world. They are coveted by collectors, and desired by galleries because they don't have to be produced in huge quantities with a large layout of capital and storage. Giclees can be printed on any number of media, from canvas to watercolor paper to transparent acetates. The colors are brighter, last longer, and are so high-resolution that they are virtually continuous tone, rather than tiny dots. The Wildflowers production facility utilizes a state of the art digital printer that, combined with our wide array of archival media and highly pigmented, uv-resistant inks, can produce a combination of 512 chromatic changes, with over 3 million possible colors. The resulting giclee reproduction has an endless array of richly saturated color, no noticeable dot pattern, and every subtle nuance of the original artwork. A Wildflowers fine art giclee reproduction carries a light-fastness rating up to 200 years under museum archival conditions. This means that in many cases a Wildflowers giclee reproduction is actually more permanent than the original fine art work, making the giclee much sought-after by fine art collectors!

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