About

Kay Potter makes things. She has done it with paint, words, software, ballpoint pens and, once upon a time, playdough. She spent every class period of her childhood drawing in the margins, and she never stopped.

She grew up in Bozeman, Montana, beneath the Bridger Mountains. She studied at the Savannah College of Art and Design and finished her degree at Montana State University, in literature, her other love. For a few years after that she guided rafts and ran ski lifts. Somewhere on the Colorado River, deep in the Grand Canyon, she decided that a life spent making art would not be a wasted one.

In 2014 she moved to Livingston and began painting full time. Since then her work has hung in solo and group shows across Montana and Wyoming. It has entered a museum collection and gone home with collectors in the United States and Australia. She has painted public murals in Livingston and Big Timber and taught plein air painting along the Yellowstone.

Kay has never had to be told where something is headed. She tends to get there early. She is also a steady presence in her community. She donates work, paints for causes, and makes art accessible to organizations doing good in Park County and beyond.

She lives in Livingston with her husband Jim, their dog Huckleberry and their cat Clem.