Lucette Bourdin (1954-2011)

Come and explore the colorful landscapes while listening to her award-winning music. Then dive in and color your version of a Bourdin landscape to take home with you. This a free opportunity to slow down and enjoy the practice of coloring.

Lucette Bourdin was a prolific painter, she developed her style through self-education in the arts. She was represented by local galleries as well as showing in Los Angeles, including a solo show at Luis Stern Gallery.

At the end of her life, suffering from cancer, she turned her creative pursuits towards music. She produced albums of light ambient music, winning awards and worldwide praise for her mesmerizing and hypnotic sound design.

Lucette was a native of France who grew up in the villages and towns near the Bouba River in the eastern part of the country. The childhood phase of scribbling and coloring never ended for Lucette. Nor could several years of law school diminish her desire to become an artist.

Always independent and self-disciplined, Lucette believed that most art programs would only limit her expression rather than grow it. She embarked on a rigorous study of artist, color theory and design which eventually resulted in her artistic voice seen in her landscapes. Using watercolor and gouache as her media, she developed a style that expresses and evokes the emotions of the soul. The outer landscapes a metaphor for the spirit that seeks expression as the light of transformation and redemption.