About the Artist
Biography
Linda is an accomplished painter with significant professional experience in graphic design and illustration. Her life-long passion for painting never waned; and several years ago she realized her dream and returned to painting as a vocation. While living in Indiana, she studied painting at Indiana Wesleyan University. She and her husband, John, now live near Dayton, Ohio. Linda graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BFA in painting from Wright State University in 2013.
She finds inspiration in the work of John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Joaquin Sorolla and Mary Cassatt. Richard Schmid, Rose Frantzen and Dan Gerhartz are contemporary artists who have been very influential in Linda’s development as an artist. She has attended workshops with Rose Frantzen, Dan Gerhartz and Dennis Perrin.
Necessary Fragments
Life is a series of intersections and connections. Painting is a way to capture those meaningful encounters and reveal the artist's experience to the viewer.
Painting is my method of "remembering" the important moments and conveying the significance of those touch points. I hope my paintings capture those essential intersections. A finished painting, for me, becomes the junction where the viewer and the artist meet. I endeavor to take the meaningful intersections and convert them into individual paintings. Each painting then becomes a visual record, a fragment of a larger experience.
The quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer expresses most clearly and powerfully what I hope my art-making will produce. Moments that remain. Necessary fragments.
Fragments of Necessity - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"It all depends on whether or not the fragment of our life reveals the plan and material of the whole. There are fragments which are only good to be thrown away, and others which are important for centuries to come because their fulfillment can only be a divine work. They are fragments of necessity. If our life, however remotely, reflects such a fragment... we shall not have to bewail our fragmentary life, but, on the contrary, rejoice in it."
Exhibitions
Nine County Art Show, Honeywell Center, 2005. Honorable Mention
Hoosier Salon Annual Exhibit, 2005
Hoosier Salon Annual Exhibit, 2008
Dayton Society of Painters and Sculptors, 2009 Contemp/Abstract Show. Hon. Mention
Dayton Society of Painters and Sculptors, 2009 Fall Members Show. Third Place, Oil
Dayton Society of Painters and Sculptors, 2009 New Members Show. Award of Merit
Hoosier Salon Annual Exhibit, 2010
Foothills Art Festival, 2010. First Place, Oil/Acrylic
Foothills Art Festival, 2011. Second Place, Oil/Acrylic
Hoosier Salon, New Harmony Gallery, 2012. Three Person Show, July, 2012
Hoosier Salon Annual Exhibit, 2012. Award for Outstanding Oil
Hoosier Salon Annual Exhibit, 2013
Hoosier Salon, Wabash Gallery, 2014. Five Person Show, Feb., 2014
Rosewood Art Centre, Works on Paper, 2014
Dayton Society of Painters and Sculptors, 2014 Plein Air Show
Dayton Society of Painters and Sculptors, 2014, Members Show
Hoosier Salon Annual Exhibit, 2014
Guest Membership, Brown County Art Guild, 2015
Hoosier Salon Annual Exhibit, 2015
Ohio Art League Fall Juried Exhibition, 2015
Solo Show, Hostess House, Marion IN, Oct. 2-Nov. 6, 2015
Artist Member, Brown County Art Guild, 2016
118th Annual Exhibition, Richmond Art Museum
Indiana Artist Holiday Exhibition, West Baden IN, 2017-2018
120th Annual Exhibition, Richmond Art Museum
Indiana Artist Holiday Exhibition, West Baden In, 2018-2019
Small Group Invitational Exhibit, Olde Master’s Galleria, Centerville OH, 2019
Solo Show, Centerville Art Gallery, Centerville OH, 2019
Art at the Trace, Invitation Only Group Exhibition, Centerville OH, 2019
Hoosier Salon Annual Exhibition, 2019
