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About

A recent transplant to Toulouse, France from Salt Lake City, Utah, Una Pett is a lifelong student of the human figure specializing in portraiture, with frequent forays into landscape painting and drawing. 

Una earned her MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art’s Graduate School of Figurative Art.  She also studied at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin, Ireland and the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle. 

She taught for many years at the Visual Art Institute in Salt Lake City and has taught at the University of Utah, Utah State University, Appalachian State University and Caldwell Community College in North Carolina, and at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She earned her BA in Studio Art from Smith College.

In addition to visual art, Una is an avid writer and passionate editor, and maintains a blog about her creative explorations and life as a voluntary expat in France.