Flash Print

“My main influence is ‘light’ and the subtle contrast to dark, and how I manifest that with the use of palette knives, brushes and my hands, giving and impasto effect with the buttery texture inherent in oil paints. Oils dry slowly. This allows me to pause the process and began again with, perhaps, a fresh perspective.” - Beatris Burgoin Beatris Burgoin builds her visual world from the three primary colors and white, layering red, yellow, and blue into luminous harmonies that capture shadows, reflections, and the essence of place. Through her paintings, Beatris invites viewers to see landscapes, memories, and identities refracted through her distinctive prism of color—transforming familiar places and faces into stories of resilience, belonging, and beauty. Born into an art-loving family, she resisted painting until a near-death experience at 18 ignited her creative path. Her early works earned the admiration of her toughest critic, her father, who recognized that his artistic legacy would continue through her. While raising her son in Crestone, Colorado, Beatris developed her practice into a professional career, teaching, collaborating with arts organizations, and completing local commissions—including a community mural. Her paintings soon reached audiences far beyond Colorado, with exhibitions in Texas, Chicago, Barcelona, and Mexico City’s Los Pinos presidential palace, as well as recognition in British Vogue. A decade later, she returned to her hometown of San Juanico, Baja California Sur, where she founded a gallery that became a cultural hub for the small fishing and surfing village. Local faces and coastal sunsets from this chapter remain woven into her work. In 2022, Beatris relocated to Santa Barbara, where she continues to expand her vision. She has since won the People’s Choice Award at the Scape Artists Exhibition and shown in Arte del Pueblo at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara.