A native of New Jersey in Canada, Linda has done extensive work in both painting and photography. Having received degrees from such eminent schools as Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Mass. and The School of Visual Arts in New York and having studied at La Sorbonne in Paris, she received honors and awards along the way.
Her portrait work includes such luminaries as ballerina Karen Kain, musician Bruce Cockburn, writers Brian Moore and Richard B. Wright, The Hon. David Peterson, former Premier of Ontario, the Hon. Henry N.R. Jackman, 25th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, the Hon. Barbara McDougall, Dr. Bernard Ostry, Dr. Sylvia Ostry, the Hon. Edwin A. Goodman, Dr. Anne Tanenbaum, Dr. Marvelle Koffler, Dr. Pierre Lassonde, Mr. Warren Goldring; Prof. Vern Krishna and Judge Ronald St. John Macdonald.
Photography plays a key role in her style, capturing images on the road, then stripping away all non-essential elements in her pieces in the studio. She has produced Limited Edition prints and Posters International has published her photographs and paintings.
Since 1972, her paintings, photographs, illustrations and words have been featured in publications around the world, most recently in Watercolor Magic Magazine; Northlight Book of Acrylic Techniques; Splash 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8; Best of Flower Painting I, II; Flowers Pocket Palette Vol.II; Painting Great Pictures from Photographs; The National Post; Lilliput Press; Dundurn Press; The Irish Times Magazine and The Dubliner.
Her portraits, landscapes, still lifes and photographs are found in corporate and private collections worldwide including AGF Management Ltd.; The Toronto Stock Exchange; The Ontario Government Art Collection, Parliament Bldg., Queen’s Park; Pine Manor College; Mt. Sinai Hospital; Midland Walwyn; Merrill Lynch; Aon Reed Stenhouse; Glaxo-Wellcome; Faculty of Dentistry, Faculty of Law, The Munk Centre of International Studies and Massey College, Univ. of Toronto and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin.
Her most recent one-woman exhibitions have been “Please Be Seated” at Visual Arts Burnaby, Ceperley House, Burnaby, B.C., “Mostly Islands” at Sutton Gallery, “Vatican Gardens and Roman Reflections” at the Joseph D. Carrier Gallery, Columbus Centre, and First Canadian Place Gallery, Toronto. She is represented by Zwicker’s Gallery, Halifax.
