2022 - Artists' Summer Studio Tour - Wood River Valley

I am very excited to be a part of the Artists’ Summer Studio Tour - August 19, 20 & 21 - 11 AM to 6 PM. I will be showing my latest work - a series of dreamy landscapes that reference all the seasons of a year. I have become attached to 30 X 40 inch canvas - and playing with oil sticks to make marks on my acrylic canvas. I also will include a few smaller works. So please save the date, would love to see you! I will be sharing a space with another artist and will be located at: North Town Center, 971 - 3 & 4 Main Street, Ketchum, Idaho 83340. The event website is: https://artiststudio.com/.

2020 Virus Continues - OMG - November!

I am still working on my virus series - three to date. The last two works - ‘Shrew Virus’ & ‘Fatal Attraction’ both incorporated photography printed on silk chiffon & oil pastel. They are both abstract landscapes with different viewpoints. Of course, Elaine was included in all the fun! I suppose as long as this hideous virus is still around - restricting my life - I will continue using the virus to counter my feelings of isolation and distress with painting. So something good is coming of this thankfully.

2020 Virus Time....

It’s been some time since my last post. I have moved three times in the past two years..hopefully settling into a more permanent studio situation. My excuse I guess. Then the COVID19 virus strikes. So my latest painting stayed with the same theme - my mother - and combined it with the isolation and fear of this virus. I paired some of mom’s old recipe cards with the ups and downs of the virus news - a bleeding heart & issues of death. I plan to continue the use of her recipe cards in future works. Enjoy!

Starting Again!

Ok, so I finally finished moving..now I am starting to produce new art work. My latest work titled “Absorbed” it is mixed media acrylic & gold leaf. I think I may continue to explore using “Elaine’s” image but in an abstracted form. I am trying to move on….

New Event for 2017!!!

My art will be displayed during the months of August, September & October 2017 at:  The Fiction Kitchen Restaurant on Davie Street in Raleigh.  This is the famous vegetarian and vegan cuisine restaurant that uses locally sourced ingredients.  Please come by and check out my art and eat some amazing food too.  

United Arts Opening Reception - May 6th 2016- Searching For Direction Exhibition

I will be exhibiting some new acrylic & encaustic works along with others seen on my works page.  Please come by and say "hi"!

Local Color Gallery May 2015 Exhibition

This exhibition showcased my latest acrylic and multimedia works inspired by New York City graffiti.

ArtsNow NC Profile Article

Beth Mandel reporting for ArtsNow NC did a profile on me in February '15.

“Linda also uses fabric transfer in her images. Since her pieces are mixed-media, they incorporate many images beyond her mother. Here she shows graffiti she photographed in New York when visiting her son. She’s transferred her image onto fabric, which will be encased in encaustic wax. Another piece in her studio features player piano paper.”

Local Color Gallery June 2014 Exhibition

Here's a postcard from an art exhibition I participated in recently. I displayed primarily my encaustic works.

Visual Art Exchange Love of Art Event Award

Elaine Still Life (c) 2013 Linda Kimball

“I also ‘met’ a new art technique up close that day, as well as the artist: The encaustic painting technique of layering melted beeswax and colored pigments. Linda Kimball starts with the wax and pigments and adds fabrics and layers of other embedded materials including, in some, gold-leaf. Her encaustics appear fragile as melted wax but the process gives this work surprising toughness.

The image Linda sent for this post is “Elaine Still Life” which won 3rd Place in the recent Visual Art Exchange’s 29th Annual Art Auction & Gala Silent & Live Auction. Yay, Linda! All of these encaustics’ layers of wax and imagery include “…a presence of ‘Elaine’”, a representation of her mother. Some of the ‘presences’ are quite visible, but some you’ll have to search for! I particularly like the texture layer added to the fruit in this still life, and can really appreciate the dream quality she affects.”