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[ B i o ] [ W o r k s ]
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. 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 live on a farm in Spring City in Sanpete Valley with three horses, twelve free range chickens, two barn cats, two ducks and Pete the Dog.
Peterson paints landscapes, architecture and people, using oils, watercolors, pastels and batik. She also enjoys illustrating books and publications including: “A World of Faith”; by Peggy Fletcher Stack featuring 28 world religions: “Stones of the Temple”; by Fred Voros about the building of the Salt Lake Temple” and 7 books of fables by Carol Lynn Pearson including “The Lesson”, “What Love Is”, Will You Still Be My Daughter”, “A Strong Man”, “Girlfriend”, “The Gift”, “Sisters” and “Koa’s Seed” a Hawaiian legend by Carolyn Han.
Sanpete has been my home for the past 31 years and though I have lived in several other places (listed above) and experimented with several types of media and varied subject matter, it is the places and people around me here that I want to paint; the farms and farmers; the houses and housewives; the fields, trees, and scenes; the integrity and peace of this valley. I am intrigued by the value of life. Each life has meaning and dignity, whether it be a human life or a sheep, a tree or even a house, there is a story and something to learn. My work is about what I observe from the lives around me. When I paint, I am trying to convey the dignity of that life. I paint the way I see things. My painting appears stylized because that is the way I see —simple and straightforward. I seldom use realistic colors because I am more interested in how the colors work with each other on the canvas and values of light and dark. I focus on line, shapes and areas of color.
[ B I O G R A P H Y ]
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. 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 live on a farm in Spring City in Sanpete Valley with three horses, twelve free range chickens, two barn cats, two ducks and Pete the Dog.
Peterson paints landscapes, architecture and people, using oils, watercolors, pastels and batik. She also enjoys illustrating books and publications including: “A World of Faith”; by Peggy Fletcher Stack featuring 28 world religions: “Stones of the Temple”; by Fred Voros about the building of the Salt Lake Temple” and 7 books of fables by Carol Lynn Pearson including “The Lesson”, “What Love Is”, Will You Still Be My Daughter”, “A Strong Man”, “Girlfriend”, “The Gift”, “Sisters” and “Koa’s Seed” a Hawaiian legend by Carolyn Han.
[ S T A T E M E N T ]
Sanpete has been my home for the past 31 years and though I have lived in several other places (listed above) and experimented with several types of media and varied subject matter, it is the places and people around me here that I want to paint; the farms and farmers; the houses and housewives; the fields, trees, and scenes; the integrity and peace of this valley. I am intrigued by the value of life. Each life has meaning and dignity, whether it be a human life or a sheep, a tree or even a house, there is a story and something to learn. My work is about what I observe from the lives around me. When I paint, I am trying to convey the dignity of that life. I paint the way I see things. My painting appears stylized because that is the way I see —simple and straightforward. I seldom use realistic colors because I am more interested in how the colors work with each other on the canvas and values of light and dark. I focus on line, shapes and areas of color.