About Golden Repair

Golden Repair is led by me, Luz Bratcher. After nearly two decades of experience in the user experience design industry, I discovered I was less interested in making things and wanted to make spaces for people to explore art mediums while learning about their creative souls. In this post-pandemic season where it’s easy to move too fast and alone, reorienting can feel simply monumental. Art invites us to slow down and get curious as a way to process, heal, and integrate our experiences. And I love helping to facilitate that process: I’ve mentored and co-created alongside people transitioning careers, grieving significant loss, and recovering from burnout. I can’t wait to make space for you.

Why the name Golden Repair? It originated from one of my painting series inspired by the Japanese mending techniques of kintsugi (金継ぎ) and boro (ぼろ). These practices honors an object’s history by embracing the worn and broken places through use of gold and decorative stitches, celebrating new strength through repair. This philosophy has been integral to my personal and professional development, something I want to invite you into as well.

You can learn more about my professional experience on LinkedIn and where my curiosity as an abstract artists is currently taking me on Instagram. I work out of Studio Mercia, my garage art studio in Top Hat (a neighborhood right between White Center and Burien).