Kay Witherspoon
2007

 

Witherspoon, the daughter of Bill and Ruth Witherspoon of Billings, Montana, was the second child in a family with five children.  She resides in Littleton, Colorado along with her husband, James Thomas ("Tom") Ayers.  Her son, Remington, graduated from the University of  California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2007 and is preparing for a career as a physician's assistant in the metro-Denver area.   Kay enjoys golfing, fishing, snow-skiing, hiking, photography, cooking, swimming, teaching art to adults and youth, and her church fellowship at Cherry Hills Community Church in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.

In her lifetime, Kay Witherspoon has worked on her Aunt and Uncle Winninger's Wyoming cattle ranch (1964-66); on trail crews for the U.S. Forest Service in Montana and Idaho (1971-73) in the Salmon River Wilderness and Bitterroot National Forest where she lived and worked fighting  forest fires, clearing trails and salmon hatching channels, and doing river count on the Salmon River, ID; as a high school history and art teacher (1973-75) in Hamilton, MT; in Denver, Colorado as a residential realtor (1976-83); as an owner,  publisher and art director for "The Colorado Art Index" and "Community Living" Magazines (1982-89); as marketing director for the Billings Deaconess Hospital; and as a marriage and family therapist with the Jefferson Center for Mental Health (1996 –97).  Throughout this varied career life Witherspoon painted and exhibited in various national and regional shows.  

In 1997 she was able to pursue her life-long passion for painting on a full time basis and now owns her own business condominium and art business in Englewood, Colorado near The Wildlife Experience Museum.  There she paints, maintains an internet gallery, teaches workshops, and markets her original and limited edition prints.

Kay Witherspoon is a professional member of the American Academy of Equine Art (AAEA),  the Society of Animal Artists (SAA), and an associate member of the Oil Painters of America (OPA).  

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