Cecile has grown the Lagenaria gourd over thirty years. She is an organic farmer with a passion for pushing the growing limits. She shares her knowledge with schools, garden clubs, Home & Garden shows and other venues. She was a guest speaker at the San Francisco Home and Garden Show and the International Farm Show in Tulare, CA.
Cecile taught herself to cut, carve, sand, burn and stitch this wood-like gourd before she discovered the wide world of gourds on the internet. Now she invites accomplished artists/instructors from several states to teach classes at her studio.
Her work has been on display at Arts Visalia, the COS Art Gallery, Yerba Buena Center for The Arts in San Fransciso, The Arts Consortium, the Visalia Convention Center and the Tulare Historical Museum. She also displayed her work at the Tulare Historical Museum in Tulare, CA and she had a solo show at the John Ginsburg Gallery in Visalia, CA.
