About Linda

Born in Portsmouth, but now living in Norfolk, my journey in art started as a life drawing student at Harrow School of Art, was interrupted by a forty year career as an interior designer but, now retired, I have more quiet time to concentrate on my painting.

Originally hugely drawn to the ideas and style of Botticelli and so, naturally, his subsequent influence on the Pre-Raphaelite movement — when I took up my brushes again, my painting by contrast started to draw on influences such as the Bloomsbury artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, particularly in their bold use of form and colour.

Finally though, I hope I have developed a style entirely my own. One that reflects both a creative ideal and something about my life.

Scouring the local auction rooms as a hobby, I was at once struck and saddened by just how much art is discarded. I was moved to see how many painters, such as myself, had put their life and soul into something, only for it to end up in countless job lot boxes going for a song.

I’ve always sought to live a sustainable life, even before there was such a term, so I started buying old paintings hoping to change them into something new and give life back to those painters who came before me.

This began to free my painting from ideas of representation, providing a strong contrast to the more conventional paintings I was working on, thus creating a modern echo of the past.

I call this Reclaimism, the idea that nothing is ever truly dead or discarded and every artistic intent can live forever.