Award winning artist Peggi Kroll-Roberts, was trained at Arizona State University and Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.  Kroll-Roberts worked as a fashion and advertising illustrator before making the transition into fine art.

Using intense color and value to accentuate her subject, she moved into fine art with a bold palette, a love for small paintings, and a very loose style that achieves a lot with a few very energetic brush strokes.  She prefers to suggest reality than render it.

Inspired by her children, Kroll-Roberts paints beach scenes and other aspects of their lives. She also breaks away from the conventional still life by painting scenes of cosmetics and the occasional coffee cup or slab of butter. Her work gives us a new appreciation of our own daily life.

Kroll-Roberts and her artist husband, Ray Roberts, live with their three children on a small ranch in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

In 2001, Kroll-Roberts won the first place award at the Laguna Art Museum Plein Air Invitational and first place at The National American Impressionist Society Show. In October 2002, Kroll-Roberts was the guest artist at the Plein Air Painters of America event on Catalina Island. She has had exhibitions in California, Utah, Wyoming, South Carolina, New Mexico, Ohio, Arizona, Montana, and Colorado. Galleries in Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico and South Carolina, represent her work.  Kroll-Roberts is a member of the California Art Club and American Impressionist Society.


It's about finding what moves me. The whole reason I did a series of "butter" paintings was because I really wanted to paint that color of yellow. I love that color. So I search and figure out what it is that speaks to me about a subject matter.