Karen Daugherty is a Colorado native whose art studio is in Littleton, Colorado. She began her painting career in watercolors thirty plus years ago. She continued to expand her artistic expression and found a love of china painting. She is a member of the International Porcelain Artist Teachers Association (IPAT). She has taught china painting over the years and during that time she has adapted her personal touch of china painting techniques into a revolutionary painting and kiln firing process for antique pieces of enamelware.
Her art has developed into a business as she began color-separating her original artwork by hand. She has made personalized hand-pulled reproductions which were then fired onto new and antique pieces of enamelware. Her idea of using the shape of the old chamberpot that our grandparents grew up with is now the Daughertys' registered enamelware "popcorn bowl."
She also paints antique lamp globes and matches antique globes perfectly for the many lamps with a broken globe that her customers "have cried over". She does custom work for customers on reproduction antique lamps and globes.
She does custom work on hand painted tiles for decoration in the home or murals for bath and kitchen walls.
"It gives me great pleasure to help others see beauty in the world continue to do the things I love." |