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Kara Krieger-McGhee Art Collections

Shop for artwork from Kara Krieger-McGhee based on themed collections. Each image may be purchased as a canvas print, framed print, metal print, and more! Every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Artwork by Kara Krieger-McGhee

Each image may be purchased as a canvas print, framed print, metal print, and more! Every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

About Kara Krieger-McGhee

Kara Krieger-McGhee Me abbreviated: A love for birds, beautiful places and things, are what inspire me to create art. If I can bring a smile or a sense of peace to someone through my drawings, paintings, writing or sculpting, I will have done what I set out to do in this life . . . bring joy. Long Cliff Notes about me: I knew that I wanted to be an artist when I was five. I'd just completed my first mural sized commission: the backdrop for my kindergarten classes Christmas play in which I was the biggest angel. From then on I knew I would paint--large. In high school I continued to paint large, all the school backdrops. It was then too that I began to dream of being an artist when I grew up. But, like many artists, I was discouraged away from the career, any career for that matter, so I got married . . . had babies and raised someone else's babies as well . . . lots of stuff happened . . . the four children grew up, some had left, and I began to paint again after 18 years. My first painting, "Searching for Hidden Treasures," gave me the confidence that I was still an artist. It was juried into the top 200 of the 2001 Arts for the Parks competition as well as featured in The Artist Magazine. . . . lots more stuff happened . . . in 2006, after painting large, portable backdrops for events and photographers in my garage in the wee hours of the morning before going to my day job, my husband gave me the gift of quitting my day job and working as an artist full time. . . . I became a faux artist . . . really . . . for several years I created custom faux finishes and murals for clients; in homes and business and on interior and exterior walls. It was a good way to make a living while creating . . . and then faux finishing was replaced by wallpaper. But I was ready to climb down from ladders and scaffolding anyway. In 2014 I officially announced that I was refocusing my career on fine art . . . I spent a year painting like mad trying to figure out who I was as an artist while entering and getting into numerous shows and competitions. I was just feeling like I was getting established as an artist and ready to roll--I had just gotten into my first gallery and being seriously considered by another . . . and once again . . . lots of stuff happened . . . and once again my art career has been put on hold. That was the end of 2016. . . . lots of stuff happened . . . and here I am in 2021 deciding to share what I have created in the past and hoping that I will have more to share in the future. I am currently writing a book and have a couple of things on the easel as well. One thing is for sure . . . no matter how much stuff can happen . . . I will always be creating. I also enjoy cooking, garden design, building rock walls, playing my piano, hiking and walking in the great out doors and instilling those loves in my grandchildren. I never tire of hearing them gasp at nature or exclaiming, "I am an artist!" My 4-year-old granddaughter took the words right out of my mouth and said it best. After taking a bunch of recycled cardboard and colored paper and cutting, gluing and coloring (and shedding a tear or two) she proudly held up the huge card she had created for her friend and while poking at her head with one finger she said, "See Grammy, I took what was in my brain, what was up here in my imagination and I made it so you can see it too!"