Erin Lee Gafill is an award-winning artist, teacher, and author whose color-rich landscapes and still-life paintings are collected internationally. She is the author of the inspirational memoir Drinking from a Cold Spring, a Little Book of Hope and Jane Gallatin Powers: A California Modernist, a biography of her great-great-grandmother. Her coffee table book Color Duets, celebrates fifteen years of painting side by side with her uncle, the internationally renowned designer Kaffe Fassett. 

Erin teaches painting, stitching, and creativity workshops online and in person, including at Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Baja California, Mexico, in Spannocchia, Italy, and at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California.