I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was a kid.
It's true. I loved animals, especially sea animals. Still do.
Then, in 3rd grade, I took a private art class. I
got to work with graphite, charcoal, clay and paint. I got the
inspiration. In middle school, my parents took me on their travels to
europe, and I got a first hand education in art history.
Photography is one of my great passions.
I was a traditionalist for many years, finally succumbing to the
digital age, and I haven't looked back. I experimented with medium
format, lomo, cyanotype, gum-prints, and spent hundreds of hours inhaling stop bath in the darkroom before going to the dark side.
Design and art have been and will be a constant passion in my life. I continue to paint, sew, craft and illustrate daily. And I'm lucky that my husband loves the ocean almost more than I do.
Professional:
Kerri (Gilpin) Percy graduated from the
University of Central Florida in Orlando, where she received a
Bachelor's Degree in Art with specialization in Graphic Design and
Animation. Currently living in Lakeland, Florida, with her husband, Jason Percy, Kerri is a Graphic Design Professor at Keiser University, teaching Page Layout, Illustration, Interactive Multimedia, and Filmmaking. Her designs, along with a painted wall mural grace many halls on the Lakeland Campus.
Kerri is also a freelance designer with over 18 years of experience in the Graphic Design field, working on a variety of print projects, ranging from magazine layout to 60+ ft. digitally printed murals. She has worked closely with many world-renowned companies such as J.W.Marriott, Hilton, Minute-Maid, Amtrak, Disney, SeaWorld, Busch Gardens, and Universal Studios.
She won 5 Addy Awards for excellence in design and advertising, presented by the Advertising Federation of Polk County.
Kerri designed one of Kaleidoscope’s 44 monarch butterfly sculptures featured around Lakeland, FL, and the butterfly has made permanent residence on the campus of Southeastern University.
