BJ Boulter studied art in London before settling in Portugal's Algarve over 50 years ago. Her film career began at 20 in Hong Kong as a set designer, traveling globally to create scenes and transform locations. Set design naturally incorporated painting and drawing, treating each film set as "a blank canvas for the director of photography to paint with light."
Now dedicating more time to painting, she creates figurative works—landscapes, people, and wildlife—inspired by travels to her homeland Tanzania and her Algarve home. "As an artist I am constantly on a voyage of discovery. A blank canvas is an immediate challenge. Tubes of paint are a toy-box," she explains, driven by light and emotional reactions to capture stories in every scene.
She is a member of Urban Sketchers and the Algarve Artists Network.