Biography
Linda grew up and lives on the North Shore of Long Island where the sea and its’ environment has played an ongoing, vital part in her life. She was a water safety instructor, and is an avid sailor, spending summers with her husband Charlie sailing from port to port, taking photos and painting along the way. She secured a BA degree in Fine Art, majoring in graphics, from Stony Brook University and a Masters Degree in Special Education & Art Education from CW Post. She studied Acrylics with Donna Moraff at The Huntington Township Art League, Oil Painting at The Long Island Academy of Fine Art in Riverhead, Oil / Marine painting with Marine Artist William P. Duffy at the Lyme Art Association in CT. & Watercolor with Adelaide Silkworth's Night Heron Group in Stony Brook. She is a member of the North Shore Art Guild, Night Heron Artists, Brookhaven Arts and Humanities Council and the Southampton Artists Association. She has been accepted into many juried shows and won first and second place awards for several of her works. Her love of the Sea and sailing is reflected in her paintings. Works are in watercolor, oils and acrylics. She has also accepted commissions for faux painting, stenciling furniture and other structural items. Her work has been shown and sold at Christopher Gallery in Stonybrook and the South Street Gallery in Greenport as well as privately. Her studio is in her home in Shoreham Village. Contact Linda at 631-744-1388 or e-mail her at seapulse@optonline.net if you wish to visit her studio, purchase a painting or commission a work. ARTIST’S STATEMENT My art, be it seascapes,landscapes or other works, is inspired by the enduring peace, beauty & drama of the sea. Like life, each passing day on the sea is unpredictable and filled with adventure. Storms, fog, becalmed days and gentle breezes bring forth amazing cloud formations, wave movements, calm and frightening seas and beautiful skies that just take my breath away. Capturing these movements, colors and feelings in my work is an ongoing challenge, for as Gustave Flaubert, a 19th Century French novelist said “…..the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does – that is, fill us with wonderment.”