Brigitte Bernard is a painter based in Los Angeles, California.

Brigitte Bernard is a painter whose work is rooted in myth and folklore. She is drawn to stories that feel older than memory, and to the way they continue to live through imagination, image, and emotional atmosphere. Her paintings explore the space where the present overlaps with an older symbolic world, where story, memory, and dream exist side by side.

She grew up in Northern California and attended Waldorf schools, where art and creativity were a natural part of everyday learning. That environment encouraged her to work with imagination, inner worlds, and symbolic imagery, and those early influences continue to shape the way she approaches painting today.

Brigitte paints on a variety of surfaces, and each one evokes a different tone and feeling in the work. Changes in material often shift the mood of a painting and influence how an image reveals itself over time. Her process is slow and intuitive, allowing images to emerge gradually through layering, texture, and quiet attention to what remains.