As a child in blissed out Cali, I spent Sundays knee-deep in tidal pools, at the Ocean shore, the avid student of my naturalist, globe-trotting parents. My ART celebrates madcap & quirky little details, brilliant color, light on objects. My watercolor wash is met with crisp, minute pen strokes using the precision of a fine radiograph pen. Street scenes, Cityscapes, Architectural Details, Organic and Urban life; celebrating the thrills of life out of doors. Zany, joy-filled, I capture my travels around the globe armed with my backpack watercolor kit, capturing light on water, stone, leaf, skin, cloud…a childlike spirit infuses my subjects, yet my pen shows off an irrepressible sophisticate.
Studied Art & Art History at Cardinal Stritch, U.W. Milwaukee and U.W. Madison in Wisconsin, with a B.S. in 20th Century Art History, Painting, and Printmaking. I began to exhibit widely during Undergraduate School with buddies, including Fred Stonehouse. Since 2004, City commissions in Peggy Karr Glass include Baraboo, Chicago, Des Moines, Door County, Green Lake, Lexington, Kentucky; Milwaukee, Sunset Milwaukee, Omaha, Nebraska. Glass State Commissions include Wisconsin and Florida.
Galleries exhibiting my work include Milwaukee's Luckystar Gallery, and in Madison, Wisconsin, the renowned Fanny Garver Gallery on the city's tony State Street. Creator of 12 city scene designs, first as watercolors then transformed into gifts including Peggy Karr Glass platters, Hand-painted Polish Ornaments, Umbrellas, Steuben Glass, and Orrefors Swedish votives, for renowned specialty retailer George Watts & Son, now in their 141st year. Other gift designs include a Des Moines Platter and Des Moines Polish-made Ornament for Joseph’s Jewelers of Des Moines, now in their 140th year; as well as a Peggy Karr Glass Platter for L.V. Harkness, to celebrate the 2010 World Equestrian Games In Lexington, Kentucky.
Artistic Contributor to the ArtPop charity benefit for the Milwaukee AIDS Project; Emcee with Bjorn Nassett for LGBT Community "Survival Revival" Thrift Fashion Show as my stage person, Sister Cashbox. Team leader for Environment for Riverbank East Catholic Parish Collective seasonally. Watch for a soon to be released How-To Watercolor Video, and American-made bespoke fragrance, to be released in 2011.
