The Studio of Kim Lordier

Until 2004, Kim Lordier created her brilliant paintings in a small bedroom at her home in Millbrae, California, just outside San Francisco. Today, she is happily at work in a structure that is separate from the house but is connected to it by a deck that features a myriad of colorful, potted flowers. The studio—which she refers to alternately as her “man cave” and “the shed”—suits her needs perfectly, offering a quiet, private space in which to work on the landscape paintings that have earned her a host of awards.

Lordier has spent her entire life in California; in fact, she says, she’s spent it in a 10-mile radius of where she, her husband Tim, and son Ryan are living today. Although she travels to, and paints in, other states, she pretty much has everything she needs in California.