Recent Work

Recent work

Jeff Hagen

Metallic artist

This is a link to the article ART ARTICLE
The above ornaments have been sold. Jeff will make more and Karen has signed prints available.

Karen's went to famous client of her's. I don't have permission to name drop, sorry. (Email, and we might tell)
Click on Karen's picture and it takes you to a listing in the eBay store, and you can watch a video too. The listing is a collection of 20 original works that spans over 20 years. Karen Wheeler 20 Works

"Square Peg in a Round Hole"
By Jeff Hagen
A welder by trade, Hagen says he was "working on some metal one day and it just kind of turned into art." Now the 40-year-old Iowa native makes a living selling his abstract metallic fragments on eBay. For his ornament, Hagen was inspired by holiday stress. "You have to bend and accommodate people and things," he says. "So I took a hammer and I beat a peg through a hole, not knowing how it would come out -- just like people do with life sometimes."

Karen Wheeler
Painter

"Budgie in a Pear Tree"
By Karen Wheeler
The life of Karen Wheeler, 54, has been one ceaseless battle against muscular dystrophy. Art, she says, helps her cope. "It's my one voice of independence," says the wheelchair-bound Kansas native, who picked up her first brush at age 4. "Nobody can help me with this stuff. I need help with almost everything else." Wheeler's ornament stars Spanky, her 8-year-old parakeet (or, as they say in Britain, "budgie"). Wheeler recently noticed how similar Spanky's shape was to a pear's. "I've done other paintings with him," Wheeler says. "I prefer painting humorous things, because if I can generate positivity by what I do, it reflects in how I feel."

Art Featured in Las Vegas Sunday Paper

Hi All,
Happy Holidays!
Karen Wheeler and me were featured artists in the Las Vegas Paper. We were both happy with the results. The article came out Sunday.
Monday, I had a collector come over and purchase the featured work and 2 others. The "square peg in a round hole" really connected with her, and that just makes me feel good.
Her comment, "That is really all of us."

The kicker is my little concept changed her Christmas.. She thought that now, she had an ornament, she would go buy a tree!