BIOGRAPHY

Kathleen began painting the beautiful land and seascapes of southwestern Alaska in the late 1970s from her home in Ketchican. She later moved south to Oregon where she raised her family, served in the Army Reserve and enjoyed a fulfilling career as owner/director of a ballet school. For recreation she pursued the sport of mountain climbing. Through these years her responsibilities to her family and careers grew, so she eventually had to stop painting.

Upon retirement from both the military and her career as a dancer, she and her husband literally “sailed off into the sunset” on their 36 foot ketch. They first sailed north to Alaska, then south to Mexico and across the Pacific, visiting many beautiful tropical islands, and finishing their trip in New Zealand. Life on a small boat is too “compact” to accommodate painting but for six years of cruising, Kathleen filled her soul with the warm bright beauty of the South Pacific and infuses that inspiration into her current art in her Tropical Island series of paintings.

The Tuckers now make their home on the Alabama coast. The warm white sands, golden sea oats and rich blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico are accented in her Gulf Coast Beaches series. Kathleen’s line of Sea Birds paintings explores the great birds found in lower Alabama’s bays and lagoons. She is currently developing a series of contemporary paintings, Just Color, because of the freedom they present to use the vibrant colors she loves.

Kathleen also paints on furniture, floor clothes, place mats, and kitchenware as well as creating wall murals and mosaics.

Kathleen is a former president of the Pleasure Island Art Association .