Katherine (“Kat”) McCall was a beloved friend, mother, wife, teacher, nurse, sister, daughter, and Augusta-based watercolor artist. Kat officially started Kat McCall Papers February 2018 at the age of 56. It was a second career for her and was one of the hardest and most challenging but also the most rewarding things she had ever done. Kat had no degree in business or marketing, or formal art training but always dreamed of building a business based on art.

Her original paintings for homes and luxury paper goods have earned a loyal client base from Los Angeles to New York and many places in between. Kat worked with many world - recognized organizations including but not limited to The New York Botanical Gardens, Blade and Bow Bourbon, Kevin’s Fine Outdoor Gear and Apparel, The American Ballet Theatre, Garden and Gun Magazine, and Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon. 

In September 2024, Kat died during Hurricane Helen, leaving the legacy of Kat McCall Papers. The Team has continued to pursue her vision using the prodigious collection of original artwork and designs that Kat created during her lifetime. 

We continue to use Kat's “3 legged” foundational stool of things she thought essential to us as humans are relationships, art, and the natural world. She believed we all need to encourage these 3 things to help us be more human. 

And that is what the Kat McCall Papers Team want our art/business/life focus to be on---encouraging ourselves and others to make time for enduring relationships, exposure to the natural world, and art in any format. These things do not have to be an “extra” thing we add to our day but rather a deepening of the areas in which we already engage. We want to serve and inspire others with tools and ideas of how to do this. So it is a continual building and honing of how we can best do this for others and how to encourage ourselves and others.

We offer a wide variety of products graced by Kat’s work including prints, stationery, invitations, greeting cards, holiday cards, and much more. We also continue to work with our clients to create custom and semi-custom designs, always striving to mark the moments in their lives as beautiful and meaningful.

“My entire life I have been driven to create. As a young child, it was drawing, coloring, and painting. As I moved into my school age years, it was sewing clothes for my dolls then sewing gifts for others and eventually clothing and home items. As a middle schooler, I painted and practiced hospitality, first for my dolls, then for my classmates. As a teenager, I became enamored with the photography in National Geographic and became a photographer. In college, I continued with photography and also became a sculptor. As a Mom, I wrote and painted botanical watercolor illustrations."