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Percival Ritchie nee MacKenzie was born on July 9, 1917 at Pointe-au-Pic in Quebec’s Charlevoix region while the family was on vacation. At school in Montreal, her art teacher for nine years was Ethel Seath (one of the Beaver Hall Group of painters).  Percival left for Paris in 1936 where she studied academic drawing at Atelier Miguet.  In 1938-1940 she attended the Art School at the Art Association of Montreal, her teachers were Lillias Torrance Newton, Goodridge Roberts, Edwin Holgate and Will Ogilvie.  Later in the 1940s Percival studied with Jacques de Tonnancour and Arthur Lismer, and in 1953-1955 with Gisella Lamprecht. In 1942 Percival married Frederick Ritchie.  They had four children. In 1956 the family moved to Naramata, BC, (near Penticton) and bought and farmed a mixed orchard.  Percival often painted land, sometimes in conjunction with water. Human presence is often prominent, and the scene is typically peaceful.