A resident of Bar Harbor, Linda lives and has her studio on the Crooked Road where she lives with her family.

Born in Keene, New Hampshire, she developed her vision and passion for art early on and went on to study sculpture, painting and graphics at the Portland School of Art in Maine.

She uses canvasses of all sizes, painting with oils, acrylic and tempera, blending layers of color or using simple washes.  When she is painting, it is as if she has been transported to a quiet world full of growing colors reflecting the internal landscape that invites viewers to step inside and feel the feathered flowers, walk up the hill to a one room cabin or to sit on a shoreline and look at uninhabited islands.

There is a healing quality to many of her paintings, painted more from instinct rather than replicating a place as it is.

Linda has spent time studying the faces of the elderly, watching clouds wave and reform, following the rocky edges of Monhegan Island, the flat sheet of a lake inland, sporting shoreline blueberries and pines stretching and bending with the winds.  Many of her paintings have a story to tell and are done in series, appealing to children and the young at heart.

Inspiration comes from the grassy fields and rolling New England hills from childhood and especially from her current life in Maine.  Mount Desert Island, with the filling and emptying of people, varied weather conditions, views of water, cliffs, and open spaces keep ideas fresh.   Living next to a working dairy farm is her blessing.

Currently, her work can be seen at Mount Deserts Ice Cream in Bar Harbor and Portland, the Colonel’s Deli in Northeast Harbor, Side Street Café, The Primrose Inn, Spruce and Gussy in Bar Harbor and the dining room at Birch Bay Village in Hulls Cove.

Studio is open by appointment or by chance (207-288-4311).