A mountain home asks a lot of its art. Ceilings are tall, walls are often timber or stone, and the view through the window is already a masterpiece. The pieces that work best don't compete with the landscape. They echo it.
At Gaia on Main in Park City and GAIA Sun Valley in Ketchum, the collection is built around art drawn from the earth, which makes it a natural match for these rooms. Here are five ideas to guide you.
1. Start with materials that echo the outdoors
Wood, stone and crystal feel natural in a room framed by trees. Dorit Schwartz fuses reclaimed wood, raw stone and crystal into sculptures. Spiritual Notes brings together acacia wood, quartz crystal and malachite on a high-polish stainless steel base, at 46 x 36 x 10 inches. Higher Consciousness pairs teak root with quartz crystal.
Wood is also the material of sculptor Derek Monturiol, who reveals the beauty hidden inside "abandoned" wood. He will be the featured artist at our next Gallery Night in February 2027; the exact date will be announced soon.
View Spiritual Notes → · View Higher Consciousness →
2. Let scale match the room
Great rooms with high ceilings can swallow a small painting. Measure the wall first, and think about how far away you will usually stand. A canvas like Yoram Gal's Growth, sky's the limit, 42 x 32 inches framed in acrylic, ink and gouache, holds its own above a sofa or against a stone wall.
“Measure the wall, then picture the room at night. The right piece should hold its own in both.”
— The curators at Gaia
Not sure about size? Send our curators a photo of your wall, and we will show you how a piece will look there.
View Growth, sky's the limit → · Talk to a curator →
3. Bring the outdoors inside
A mountain home is about time outside, and some paintings carry that feeling indoors. Kansas City painter Steven Dragan, an architect turned artist, paints swimmers, canoers and long days outdoors in heavy-body acrylic, with tiny, gestural figures that read as rhythm and pattern from across the room.
Swimming in Color is heavy-body acrylic on canvas in an oak frame, 37.5 x 49.5 inches, a size that suits a living room wall. For a great room, Canoers is 49.5 x 73.5 inches, also in an oak frame.
“I enjoy the idea that viewers can interpret meaning from the minimal brushstrokes that form the figures, allowing them to project their own narratives onto the work.”
— Steven Dragan
View Swimming in Color → · View Canoers →
4. Choose soft color for bedrooms and quiet rooms
Not every wall needs drama. Christine Adele Moore layers soft washes, sculptural texture and hidden gold, silver or copper leaf into luminous acrylic paintings. For more than two decades she created custom large-scale works for interior designers. Lyrical Blue is acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 40 x 60 inches, and Party of Two brings a lighter, playful note to a quiet room.
For a deeper, more contemplative mood, Matthew Samson paints with stardust, particles older than the sun, alongside marble dust and paint. Cosmic Dancer is an emulsion of stardust, marble dust and paint on marble dust on canvas, 22 x 60 inches, tall and narrow enough for the wall beside a bed.
View Party of Two → · View Cosmic Dancer →
5. Plan for evening light
Mountain evenings come early for much of the year, so think about how a piece looks after sunset. Many of Dorit Schwartz's sculptures include built-in lights, a quiet way to bring the crystal forward after dark. Tides of Life, in acacia wood, malachite and quartz crystal with LED lights, is 46 x 33 x 14 inches.
For color on a wall, consider glass. Master glass artist Christopher Jeffries apprenticed at Dale Chihuly's Boat House studio and has taught at the Corning Museum of Glass. His Geometric Series is hand-blown glass art in jewel tones of amber, plum, olive and rose.
For contrast with all that warm wood, consider polished steel. Gary Traczyk's Infinity, in stainless steel at 13 x 36 inches, is inspired by the Möbius strip: no beginning and no end.
View Tides of Life → · View Geometric Series → · View Infinity →
If your room leans toward abstraction, the textured oils of Mexico City brothers Pablo and Efraín Castro blur landscape and abstraction in a way that sits easily next to stone and timber. Their Oleo is oil on canvas, 52 x 52 inches.
Buying with confidence
Every work at Gaia on Main is an original and comes with a certificate of authenticity. Every piece is available through both of our galleries. The best way to choose is to see a piece in person, so visit us on Main Street in Park City, open until 9 PM, or at GAIA Sun Valley in Ketchum, or book a private visit with a curator. Gaia on Main has been part of Park City since 2020, and was voted Best Gallery in Park City 2026 in The Park Record People's Choice.
Visit the galleries
Gaia on Main
314 Main Street
Park City, UT 84060
Open daily until 9 PM
GAIA Sun Valley
659 Sun Valley Road
Ketchum, ID 83340
Open daily, 10 AM – 5 PM · 208-973-0137
Every work is an original, comes with a certificate of authenticity, and is available through both galleries.