IT WAS BRIGITTE GRANTON’S FATHER who gave her her first set of oil paints and easel when she was around seven, which she has to this day, along with his 50-year-old pochade box and oil paints; still soft and buttery. “He was a very creative person who painted in his spare time and applied his talents to his full-time job as an executive hotel chef, too. I began painting and drawing alongside him before the age of five.”
In high school, Brigitte had to decide whether to focus on the arts or major in the natural sciences, her other passion. “I decided I could create art in my spare time and it would be easier to get a job in the sciences,
