Biography
Born in a numerous siblings in the heart of the Bordeaux vineyards, I spent my adolescence running museums and galleries, thirsty for discoveries, amazed by pictorial art since its origins. I dreamed of being a comic strip artist or illustrator but the teaching offered at the time did not correspond to my desire to learn. I entered another world full of richeness, that of wine, where I worked for twenty years. After having created a boutique hotel, which won me a renovation prize from the City of Bordeaux, and decorated some beautiful houses, I am back to my first love, ink drawing, which allows me the most wonderful journeys. Imaginary journeys nourished by reality: Senegal in the 80s, Japan many times, China, California, New York, Mexico, Guyana, Nicaragua; I travelled through Germany, Spain and Italy and moved more than twenty-five times. From the porthole, I have admired the world, and seen how cities are becoming larger and larger, and more and more similar.
Brigitte Lurton