In 2006, after a hiatus of almost 20 years, Linda began painting again and shortly after won an award for her oil painting, "Fields Near Lucketts, Virginia" at a show held at the the Artists League of the Sandhills in April 2007. The previous fall, Linda and her husband moved to Whispering Pines, North Carolina from Annapolis, Maryland after living in Northern Virginia, Europe and Panama.
Born in Clarion, Iowa in 1946 she graduated from Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas with a BA in Education. Her emphasis was in printmaking and drawing. She began her teaching career in Kansas and later moved to loudoun County, Virginia in 1972. Linda taught high school art classes at Loudoun Valley High School until 1988. She and her husband married and moved to Annapolis in 1990 before heading overseas for several years.
After her teaching career, the traveling, and the move to North Carolina Linda knew she wanted to get back to working with her art. Thus has begun the new journey to continue to study subjects of interest to her and the colors and effects of sunlight. She has a special affinity for the subjects she paints which have a basis in her own life. Working mainly in oils Linda hopes her paintings evoke a personal response by the viewer to her interpretation of those "moments in time". Most of her work is landscapes although she experiments with interiors, still life, and figurative subjects. Her previous paintings, prints and drawings are in numerous private and college collections and have won awards.
