Kay Culpepper graduated from Florida State University with majors in Spanish and English literature and minors in fine arts, French and education. She has been a student of art all her life and a teacher. In recent years she has taught children and adults at the Pacific Art League, the Palo Alto Art Center, Avenidas Senior Center, Pre-School Family, and privately. She is a working artist who exhibits locally and in Florida. Her main focus has been watercolor painting and drawing. Although she has a passion for travel and has painted in England, France and Mexico, the natural world has been her main interest since childhood. Her paintings reflect her love of wild places and her strong feelings for protecting them. Her main focus recently has been "endangered lands" from the foothills and coasts of California to the remains of the wilderness shores in her native Florida."