NEW WORK
JOHNSTON CANYON: MELT 07 8" x 13.5" oil, mixed media on board
This work is permeated with a sense of transition and transformation. Turbulent water becomes still, ice thaws, water vapourizes. My notions of stability and permanence tumble into the enthusiasm of spilling canyon waters, mellow in still pools and dissipates, lost to the air.
In both these series of work, the combination of photographically based imagery along with the manipulative immediacy of paint enables the subject and object to merge and transform from form to mirage resulting in a more profound art form.
When you visit Calgary, AB please stop by Master's Gallery Ltd and while in Kelowna, BC please see my work at Tutt Art Galleries.
2011 Featured Artist at Master's Gallery Ltd. from November 5, 2011
2011 "Celebrating Children" from November 2, 2011- January 2, 2012 with Alberta Society of Artists, Lougheed House, Calgary, Alberta
2011 "Artists' Choice" with Alberta Society of Artists, Lougheed House, Calgary, Alberta
2011 "Alberta Landscapes" with Alberta Society of Artists, Frank Slide Interpretive Centre, Crowsnest Pass, Alberta
2011 Artists and Education, Alberta Foundation for the Arts supports arts residency programs in Alberta schools through the Artists and Education project grant stream. The grant stream enables schools to bring professional Alberta artists into their classroom. I spent much of 2010 and 2011 teaching curriculum-based Digital Photography Residencies to entire schools including Valley Creek Middle School, Glendale, and Earl Grey Elementary. I was hired by private contract to teach William Reid School.
2010 "Performance Painting" with Neil Cockburn and Linda Craddock in the Jack Singer Concert Hall, in the EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts. The Mount Royal University Conservatory and its partners are delighted to host six days of world-class events. The concert was performed during the Calgary Organ Festival and Symposium. Calgary Organ Festival and Symposium.
2010 "Champions of Learning" promotes Adult Learning and Literacy in Calgary through the University of Calgary's Continuing Education. View my two part lecture on Autobiographical Photos and Mixed Media Photography on the Continuing Education's YouTube Channel.
2010 "New Members - New Work" Alberta Society of Artists Exhibition from April 21 - May 30 at Lougheed House Gallery 707-13 Avenue SW Calgary, AB.
2009 "Images & Reflections" From June 4 to June 27, 2009 the Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts in Calgary, Alberta presents the exhibition and celebrates a successful Eastern European Tour. Opening Thursday June 4, 2009 at 7:30 pm.
2008 "A Tribute to Olivier Messiaen" (1908-1992) Performance Painting with Dame Gillian Weir, organist. Cantos Music Foundation Organ Area, University of Calgary Department of Fine Arts and ProArts Society, Calgary, Alberta.
2008-2007 "Images and Reflections" The Artists Circle International Exhibition traveling through Poland and the Czech Republic. Organized by The Triangle Gallery, Calgary, Alberta.
“Without exception, my creative work is informed by the photograph -- memory and belief touched by the familial and personal photo archive. My photographic process involves a reality recorded, scrutinized, reassessed, negotiated and rearranged.”
Linda graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design then received a BFA in Drawing and MFA in Photography from the University of Calgary. Public exhibitions include the Glenbow Museum, Edmonton Art Gallery, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and various artist-run centers. The Art Gallery of Alberta, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Alberta Culture and Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography have collected her work.
Linda values Art Education and community involvement in the Visual Arts. She teaches with the Calgary Board of Education as an artist in residence, gives workshops for EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts and offers courses with University of Calgary's Continuing Education. Linda supports the Calgary Contemporary Arts Society and the Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts.
Her work is represented by Masters Gallery in Calgary, Alberta.
ABOVE:
JOHNSTON CANYON: Waterfall Digital Photograph 2011.
TRANSITIONS: QE Highway overpass. Digital Photograph, 2010.
