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Courtney Khail | Southern Watercolor Artist (photo by Elle Golden)

Hi, I'm Courtney.

I'm a Southern contemporary artist currently living in Athens, Georgia with my husband and our rescue mutt. Here you'll find a peek into what inspires me, new pieces I'm working on, and a whole lot of random thoughts. (Oh! And for those curious, my last name is pronounced “kale”.)

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I wish you could see this one in person- the depth and details and layers are just remarkable. Framed in a gorgeous natural, maple frame, “Fruit Snack” is the featured painting for Day 6 of my 12 Days of Christmas Sale!

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This is one of my absolute favorites so I’m kind of surprised I’m letting it go! Created in part by melting “paint popsicles”, Day 5 of my 12 Days of Christmas Sale is: Balloon Animals!

Part of my Sugar & Vice Collection-
I see you swooning over there about my full color floral pieces! (I get it. They’re beautiful!) Well no more standing on the sidelines because today is your day to get one of those stunning pieces up on your wall.

Day 4 of my 12 Days of Christ
FRAMED original art for less than $400? Yep! All thanks to Day 3 of your favorite 12 Days of Christmas Sale. (Basically like the greatest advent calendar there is without any pieces of disappointing chalky candy.)

Today’s painting? ASHES No. 2
I wish you could see this one in person- the depth and details and layers are just remarkable. Framed in a gorgeous natural, maple frame, “Fruit Snack” is the featured painting for Day 6 of my 12 Days of Christmas Sale!

Seriously, it&rsq This is one of my absolute favorites so I’m kind of surprised I’m letting it go! Created in part by melting “paint popsicles”, Day 5 of my 12 Days of Christmas Sale is: Balloon Animals!

Part of my Sugar & Vice Collection-
5 reasons to shop local (and not just on small business Saturday, because once a year just doesn’t cut it.)

1)You know you’re getting something special and one-of-a-kind (hand written thank you notes, beautiful packaging, and absolutely
I see you swooning over there about my full color floral pieces! (I get it. They’re beautiful!) Well no more standing on the sidelines because today is your day to get one of those stunning pieces up on your wall.

Day 4 of my 12 Days of Christ FRAMED original art for less than $400? Yep! All thanks to Day 3 of your favorite 12 Days of Christmas Sale. (Basically like the greatest advent calendar there is without any pieces of disappointing chalky candy.)

Today’s painting? ASHES No. 2


Courtney Khail ASHES Artist Statement

ASHES Artist Statement

March 19, 2021

Critiques used to be the hardest part of being an artist. The thought of displaying my work- paintings that I'd poured my soul into- up in front of everyone to see, to evaluate, to judge; it was scary.

But critiques don't make me nervous anymore. Take it or leave it, this is my art and I'm proud of what I create.

Nope, critiques don't scare me, but my artist statements sure do. Their vulnerability, the fact that I'm not really a poet (yet I tend to write in prose), the fact that my words can easily be misconstrued or misinterpreted- it's all a bit terrifying.

I write my statements in pieces- jotting down lines as they come to me. Constantly collecting little bits of the final piece as I'm painting, driving, talking, even sleeping. Eventually all the pieces are there and I just have to arrange them.

And when I read it and a tightness forms in the back of my throat? The one we all feel when we're overcome or about to cry? That's when I know it's finished.

When it's just raw enough that I'm almost too afraid to share it.

Last night I switched two words in the ASHES statement (poem?) and the tightness came.

So now it's time to share.

“That’s not empathy

it’s trauma

A heightened sensitivity borne from years

Tiptoeing around the eggshells littered across your floor.

Exhale.

You do not need permission to case off your armor

To release the breath you’ve held inside.

Unpack your laundry

Let the golden rays wash it anew while

Your delicate heart mends.

Fragile, but unbroken.

Strengthened by emotional kintsugi

(Being unaccepted does not make you

unacceptable)

Set those thoughts on fire

Watch them spark and burn

Fleeting choreography twisting in the breeze

Wipe the soot from your eyes- the charred

Remnants from under your nails.

Spread your wings

Stretch their muscles and

Rise from the ashes

Reborn.”

← Let's talk about traumaASHES launches tomorrow! →
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