“I have always sought wild places, feeling that nature is central to my way of life.” says Susan Bourdet about her childhood. In her watercolor paintings, Bourdet enjoys contrasting soft-edged, luminous background areas with delicately detailed birds and animals.

Susan Bourdet's watercolor DVD workshops show you how to produce beautiful wildlife paintings in your own backyard with mastery of life-like details and complicated scenes. “No piece of my art has ever seemed complete to me without an element that could fly or dart from the page.”

Bourdet moved with her family to Oregon in 1974 and discovered the beauty of watercolor painting quickly thereafter. Susan's career as a professional artist really begin in 1980, when she was raising her two children and needed to work at home. Seeking her place in the art gallery scene, she joined a support group of nature artists and began to show her work in local galleries. In 1989, her paintings were discovered in a Portland gallery by Wild Wings. She now has over sixty limited editions and her work is featured in a yearly songbirds calendar! “My paintings don't attempt to duplicate what I see in nature, but rather to capture a fragment of the wildness and beauty we could so easily destroy.”

Susan Bourdet has two watercolor DVD workshops with Creative Catalyst Productions including Inspiration from the Garden in Watercolor and Bold & Beautiful: Backyard Wildlife in Watercolor.