Lauren Bordes lives and works in Charleston, South Carolina. Lauren paints primarily from memory as a way of exploring the constant influences of the natural world. By recalling distinctive visual landscapes of her past through painting, she pays homage to nature as a place of sublime experience and an environment for restoration & healing. The impermanence and blur of each memory is fully embraced in the process and the imperfect abstractions intend to leave space for contemplation.

Education & Work History

Lauren studied painting at Washington University’s Sam Fox School of Art & Design (BFA) and architecture at Harvard University (MArch). While attending Washington University, she received the Jeffrey Frank Wacks Award for Excellence in Painting, the Hazel H. Huntsinger Memorial Prize for Painting, and was selected as the Sam Fox School’s John T. Milliken artist in residence at La Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Over the past ten years, Lauren has worked as a designer for various prominent architecture offices in New York City and has taught core architecture studios at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Today Lauren continues to pursue an artistic practice alongside her architecture projects (Green Street Studio), mutually informed and driven by explorations of nature as inspiration for conscientious and healthy making.

Commitment to A Healthy Material Practice & Environmental Improvement

During a time when making at all scales exerts undeniable pressures on the natural world, Lauren is committed to painting with thoughtfully sourced materials. Over the years, Lauren has shifted her painting practice away from petroleum-based products with the exception of Gamsol for brush rinsing and is now in the process of shifting all wood canvases and papers to FSC certified and recycled products respectively.

As a true tree lover, 10% of each art sale will be donated to One Tree Planted as an effort to contribute to global reforestation (more information will be available with each seasonal art sale).