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Peggi Kroll-Roberts, Figure with Beach Hat, Oil on Canvas, 18" x 24"

Biography Peggi Kroll-Roberts

Whether painting still life, landscapes, European scenes, animals, or figurative works, Peggi Kroll-Roberts is drawn to shapes of color and the contrast between them. In a beach scene, intense sunshine on children playing while dark shadows fall on the water. In a still life, a bright slab of butter sits dramatically on a red plate. “I love to paint kids in their everyday lives. I like to paint pauses.’” Peggi Kroll-Roberts says. The artist was trained at Arizona State University and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA., then worked as an illustrator before making the transition to fine art. Today Peggi Kroll-Roberts lives with her husband, artist Ray Roberts and their three children on a small ranch in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains in Northern California, surrounded by horses, chickens, cats and dogs. Her studio is a converted storage building heated by a wood stove. Most of her work is painted from life although Peggi sometimes uses photographs to augment her plein air paintings.

Peggi Kroll-Roberts, Laguna Bathers, Oil on Canvas, 6" x 8"

Awards

• Gold Prize at Laguna Beach Plein-Air Invitational, 2001, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
• Best of Show Artists’ Choice “Masters in Montana” June 1997 Chaparral Fine Art, Bozeman, MT
• CAC Ebel Club Show- 2nd Place, Still Life March 1998 Los Angeles, CA
• Oil Painters of America Show-Cash Award 1994 Chicago, IL
• Beaver Creek Art Festival, Best of Show 1994- Beaver Creek, CO

Exhibitions

• 2012 - 4th Annual Small Works Show and Sale, Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
• Santa Lucia Preserve, Invitational En Plein Air, Carmel, CA 2007
• Arizona: A Millennium of Arizona Art, Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2007
• American Impressionist Society- September 2000 Cincinnati Art Club Wessel Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
• Laguna Invitational- July 2000, 1999 Laguna Beach Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
• 90th Gold Medal Exhibition, CAC- June 2000 Pasadena Historical Museum, Pasadena, CA
• Two person show- May 2000 Thomas Reynolds Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Two person show- March 2000 Third Canyon Gallery, Denver, CO
• CM Russel Auction- September 2000, 1999, 1998, 1996, 1995 Chaparral Fine Art, Bozeman, MT
• Plein Aire Exchange “Paintings from Florence, Italy” Group Show Chaparral Fine Art, Bozeman, MT
• Two Person Show- June 1999 Thomas Reynolds Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• One Person Show- August 1998, Chaparral Fine Art Bozeman, MT
• “The Beaux Arts Festival”- April 2000, 1998, 1997 Scottsdale Artist School Scottsdale, AZ
• Two Person Show- August 1997 Leapingotis Fine Art, Vail, CO

Associations

• California Art Club
• American Impressionist Society
• Oil Painters of America

Publications

• San Jose Mercury News, May 2000 Article previewing work of artist
• Southwest Art Magazine, January 2000 Article previewing five painters to watch
• Southwest Art Magazine, 1999 Paintings under a thousand dollars
• Southwest Art Magazine, May 1999 Best of the West Section
• Bozeman Daily Chronicle, August 1998 Article previewing exhibition
• Art Talk Magazine, June/July 1997 Artist worth watching

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Peggi Kroll-Roberts, Butter on Green Plate, Oil on Canvas, 9" x 12"