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Linda Smith
Acrylics/Mixed Media
Linda Smith is a fine artist, based in Livermore,
California. Smith
studied fine and applied arts in college, receiving a BA in Humanities
from the University of Oregon in 1976.
Smith says of her love of art,
"My art training began at the feet of my grandfather . . . as
a child and teen, I would sit and watch him paint. My grandfather
was a traditionalist and realist, taking joy in painting seascapes
and California Missions. I
took a different path."
Smith's work can best be described
as abstract expression, working mostly in acrylics and mixed media.
She is a colorist, meaning that for her, manipulating color is the
passion behind her work. "I find natural forms — sea life,
plants and flowers, butterflies — to be perfect armatures for
the application of color."
She also loves to reinterpret photographs that catch her imagination.
"I reinterpret with color — the scene
in the photograph may still be recognizable in my painting, but what
I have done is to interpret the photo into an expression of color."
Email: LCSartist@sbcglobal.net |
