Linda has been painting for over 30 years She makes her home and home studio in the Ottawa area Primarily self taught over the last twenty years she did graduate from the Fine Art Program at StLawrence College in the 90s Linda concurrently had a 35 year career as an RN mostly in the EmergencyDepartment She retired in 2018 from nursing and is working as a full time artist selling her paintings and teaching painting workshops periodicallyHer favorite mediums to work with are acrylics and more recently oil and cold wax She is inspired by colour and texture and creates abstracted landscapes and floral paintings that burst with positive energy The creative process draws her into her studio to paint large format work and she also regularly paints en plein air smaller works inspired directly from natureMy goal as an artist is to see what the essence of my subject matter is and paint in my expressionistic way what delights my senses about the subject Sometimes the subject is real and sometimes it is derived from my memories and imagination The freedom to express myself in this way has given me joy and I wish to share my joy with othersnbsp