Ginna BB Gordon has an amazing lifetime of creative experience. Her artistic journeys have taken her through high-end custom bookbinding, fine silk and Tibetan Thangka painting, and custom clothing design and adornment.

An accomplished vegetarian chef and cook book author, Ginna was founding executive chef at Deepak Chopra's Center for Health and Well-Being in La Jolla, California. Based on her experience there, she and co-author David Simon, MD, wrote A Simple Celebration: a vegetarian cookbook for body mind and spirit. Ginna has created gourmet vegetarian food for movie stars, Tibetan Lamas, for retreat and conference centers, and for her own successful cafes.

Ginna is an acclaimed creator of hand-painted high-art ceramics, embellished clothing, and other adornments for the nourishment and delight of the artistic spirit. Her works are in private collections throughout the United States. She is also a founding member of the Carmel Valley Art Association, and regularly shows her works at Valley Girls Gallery in Carmel Valley.

Maintaining her commitment to the arts in her local community, Ginna serves as Director of Marketing and Development of the Carmel Music Society, an organization that for 80 years has produced an annual series of concerts in Carmel by major international musical stars.

Ginna lives in Carmel, on the Beautiful California Coast, about two hours south of San Francisco, with her husband, singer-teacher David Gordon, and their cat, Squeaks. For details about Ginna's work, please phone or email Ginna at her Carmel Valley Studio.