Born:

January 4, 1952 in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma

Education:

Oklahoma City University

Private oil painting lessons with John Shelby Metcalf (1961-1962) 
Jim Wilcox Workshop in Jackson , Wyoming (1993)

Biography:

Art has always been a natural part of Linda's life.  She won her first blue ribbon in kindergarten.  She was illustrator for her grade school newspaper as well as her high school yearbook.

Linda credits her parents for giving her the opportunity to develop her art talent.  At the age of nine, she studied with the late John Shelby Metcalf, a prominent Oklahoma oil painter.  He introduced the artist to oils which became her favorite medium.  Oils have remained Linda's focus to this day.  Furthermore, her parents opened her eyes to the natural beauty of this land through trips West and around her native state of Oklahoma .  Linda stated,  "We always had time to stop and observe a rainbow or watch a thunderhead form."

By the time the artist was twenty, her work had been displayed at the Kennedy Center in Washington , D.C. , the Kerr Museum , the Oklahoma Museum of Art, and the Oklahoma Art Center .  Her painting "Fall in the Kiamichis" was reproduced in the Bell Telephone pamphlet "Telephone Talk."

In the 1970's marriage and two children interrupted her career.  For the next few years art took a back seat to raising her family.  Presently, Linda is painting and exhibiting her work throughout the Southwest.

In 1983, the noted landscape artist Wilson Hurley selected her painting to hang in the Art Annual IV.    Oklahoma City 's Baptist Medical Center featured several of Linda's paintings on their calendars in the late 1980's.  Since 1998, the artist has participated in the Gilcrease Museum 's American Art in Miniature Show and recently has been invited to the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s annual Western Visions show.  Her work was also chosen for the Top 100 Arts for the Parks competition in 2001 and 2005.

The artist's style has been described as a combination of realism and impressionism.   Her love and reverence for the land inspires her to record the countryside and the vanishing wilderness of this country.  Linda comments, "My desire is to paint a landscape reflecting my love for nature.  I want the viewer to feel my emotion and inspiration which led me to paint the scene."

Best of Show Awards:
Arts Festival 1991 (Senator Kelly Haney, Judge)
Howell Gallery People's Choice Award 2002
Duncan  Fall Festival
Midwest City Art Festival
Wild Plum Ranch Art Award
White Dome Gallery Show-People's Choice Award 1996 & 1998

Organizations:
Oil Painters of America
Oklahoma Art Guild