"While I paint, I focus on my mission to bring beauty into the world that did not exist before."
Kay Allenbaugh is an Oregon watercolor artist and the national best-selling author of the Chocolate for a Woman's Soul series — 13 books, nearly 3,000,000 copies sold in 18 languages. Each book collects true, heartfelt stories from women across the country. The joy she found writing them carries straight into her paintings: "Inspiration feeds my soul, whether from art or books."
She lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon, with her husband Eric — a retired leadership consultant, executive coach, keynote speaker, and author of Wake-Up Calls and Deliberate Success (more at Allenbaugh.com) — and their two dogs, Buddy and Lucy. Grown sons, daughters-in-law, and grandchildren round out the family.