I’m Kalie Graves, an oil painter living in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Overrun in a household full of boys (husband Spencer, boys Henry and Russell, Bill the dog, Bad Boy Bob the cat, and Franklin the nude Sphynx) I’m living a wonderful busy life. What’s the draw to painting you may ask? It’s a maddening profession, but I cannot stay away from it. It pulls me into a whirl of many emotions; excitement, frustration, vulnerability, satisfaction… It’s quite a silly game I play. But, after setting the brush down and stepping back from the canvas, whatever emotion I’m feeling,… I’m grateful for it. It means I’m alive and doing what I want to do; creating! Of course I prefer the good feelings over the maddening ones, but that’s the path of an artist. It’s the path I’m sticking with.

Awards:

Third Place, Oil Painters of America Plein Air Wet Paint Competition. 2019

Acceptance into the Oil Painters of America National Juried Competition. 2019

Third Place, Oil Painters Division, Eastern Idaho State Fair Fine Art Competition. 2019

First Place, Third Place, Oil Painters Division, Eastern Idaho State Fair Fine Art Competition. 2018

First Place, Second Place, and Third Place Oil Painters Division, Eastern Idaho State Fair Fine Art Competition 2017

Southwest Art Magazine, March/April 2020 Issue. “Artist to Watch”, Page 16

PleinAIr Magazine, November 2019 Issue, Page 92

Utah Art Market, Sugar House Garden Center, SLC, Utah. October 9-10. 2020

RS Hanna Gallery, Fredericksburg, Texas. Oil Painters of America 29th Annual National Juried Exhibition. 2020

Hall Gallery, Idaho Falls, Idaho. Solo Exhibition. 2020

Alpine Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah. Best In Show Animal Inspired Art. 2018-2019

Illume Gallery, St. George, Utah. Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition. 2019

Instagram @kalie.graves.art