British-born and self-taught, Audrey Beharie-McGee is an emerging fine artist and photographer living between the cultural richness of London and the creative pulse of Atlanta, Georgia. She shares her artistic life with husband Brian McGee—renowned storyboard artist, animator, and fine artist.

Audrey’s artistry is rooted in a life of expression. A natural performer from childhood, she is also a singer, songwriter, and performing arts coach whose early passions shaped a lifelong pursuit of soulful, creative work. Guided by fearless curiosity and unwavering faith, her path has been anything but ordinary.

In 1988, while working in the London offices of art collectors Sir Paul and the late Linda McCartney, Audrey encountered masterpieces by Warhol, Monet, Kahlo, Klimt, and others. These close encounters lit a fire within—kindled by Van Gogh’s emotive brushwork, Peter Max’s electric hues, and the textured rebellion of Rauschenberg and Pollock.

But her journey would take an unexpected turn. In 2016, Audrey was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, an autoimmune disease that slowly diminished her voice and silenced her ability to sing. It was a deeply personal loss—one that struck at the core of her creative identity. Yet, in that quiet space of surrender, her creative flame would reignite. While on a cruise with her husband, Audrey attended a gallery showing, and in that serendipitous moment, her interest in visual art was rekindled with clarity and divine urgency. What had once been dormant came alive again, this time through canvas and color.

Back in Georgia, Audrey immersed herself in study, drawing strength from modern masters like Rashid Johnson, Howardena Pindell, Kehinde Wiley, Mark Bradford, and most recently Amy Sherald and Mickalene Thomas, whose vibrant portrayals of Black life, beauty, and power helped shape her evolving voice.

After several months of immersion in which Audrey started to doubt her ability as an artist, she suddenly found her “mojo" and discovered the elation of exercising a carefree, uninhibited and unrestraint essence that would allow her to delve head on into the realms of the mixed media movement.  Feeding and fueling her creative expression gives her the opportunity to explore, create, discover and delve into areas of her artistic learning curve that she never thought would be possible.

Her process is raw and intuitive: scraped palette knives, torn textures, vivid splashes, and fragments of photography blend into emotionally rich compositions. This fusion birthed her signature series,
“SOULISM: The Human Experience—A Journey Through Fine Art and Photography.”

A bold meditation on identity, emotion, and spiritual endurance, SOULISM invites viewers into an honest, multilayered exploration of what it means to be human. Each piece bears witness to both struggle and triumph, painted with reverence and vision.

As a self-taught artist, Audrey believes that she is able to embrace the freedom of learning by doing. Her practice is one of constant flux and regeneration—ever-changing, ever-expanding. She finds joy in the unknown, wonder in experimentation, and beauty in the process itself. For her, the journey of discovery is as vital as the art it creates.

Audrey’s passion for art mirrors her love and elation that she experiences when she writes a song so beautiful to her ears that everything falls perfectly into the right place. She has found that composing a well-crafted song or artwork which encompasses all the subtle and integral facets, harmonics, complementary tones, textures and flow creates BEAUTY! When spirit, body, soul and creativity are in union - then the MAGIC HAPPENS!

Audrey’s work was recently featured in a six-page spread in Black Arts Magazine:
🔗 https://blackartmagazine.com/audrey-beharie-mcgee-collage-artwork

Rooted in faith and fueled by purpose, Audrey Beharie-McGee creates not only art, but moments—each piece a window into resilience, wonder, and the divine rhythm of the soul. She paints what words cannot always say, and through that expression, she continues to inspire reflection, connection, and healing.