Kathleen Peterson was born the third child of a third child to school teacher parents in Provo, Utah. Having been raised with the idea that the best education is travel she has lived in the Virgin Islands, Malaysia and Hawaii and traveled throughout Southeast Asia and Central America. A painter of the rural Utah landscape, Kathleen Peterson usually paints outdoors, preferring the warm tones of dawn and dusk. She also paints architectural scenes and figures.
Her teachers have been Bill Whitaker and Trevor Southey, and she earned a Bachelor’s Degree from Brigham Young University.
As an artist she is continually learning painting with oils and watercolors, illustrating books, making batiks and building clay figures. She and her husband have four grown children and now live on a farm in Utah with two horses, twelve chickens, two barn cats, four ducks, and Pete the Dog.
Kathleen Peterson in her studio.
