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ogrady@ntlworld.com
Artist statement
After being solely a portrait painter for nearly twenty years, Linda is currently enjoying the resurgence in popularity of figurative art across the country. There is endless inspiration to be found in the human figure and no shortage of subject matter in our daily lives.
Linda loves to paint the nude; the fluidity of flesh in all its forms and has recently become absorbed in the burlesque scene: beautifully posed bodies with stunning costumes and a little dose of eroticism!
Linda continues to paint portraits as well, religiously entering all the portrait annual exhibitions she can, but now Linda has a greater variety of work to show, all still telling some story or other, and what that story is very much depends on what you, the viewer, sees.
Influences
Linda has always been interested in all types of figurative work and portraiture in particular; her work is in a traditional vein, in that her paintings are realistic and portraits always look like the subject! Linda is particularly inspired by the excellent drawing skills of artists such as Toulouse Lautrec, Ronald Searle and Picasso's sketchbook work and currently admires the work of Alexandra Gardner, Ewan Uglow, Jack Vettriano, and others who like to paint what they see around them with that little bit extra. Linda is fascinated by the human figure in all its forms and often the face in particular. Linda loves the different visual effects of light on form.Career path Linda graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1992 with a BA (Hons) in Illustration and painting. She was exhibited in the 1993 BP Portrait Award at the NPG in London, and has been exhibiting and selling her work across the country since graduating. Linda currently works in a studio in the west end of Glasgow, where she thoroughly enjoys being in the company of other artists and finds her creative juices flow very freely! Her portraits have been published in a number of Dorling Kindersley How to books.
Linda believes art should be available to all and is trying
particularly to dispel the myth that real art, and a portrait in
particular, is hugely expensive or that you have to sit in a draughty artists studio for months on end. Linda would like to feel that there is a place for her paintings in any environment.
Exhibitions
2009 Summer show_Sun Gallery, Newburgh
Tassle tease (solo show)_Guilty Lily, Edinburgh
The Art of the Temptress_Art de Caf Gallery, Glasgow
various group shows_Merchant Gate Gallery and Arteries Gallery, Glasgow
2008 Summer Show and Pre-Christmas Open Studios_Napiershall St Studios, Glasgow
various group shows_Merchant Gate Gallery, Glasgow
various group shows, including the Glasgow Show_Arteries Gallery, Glasgow
Untitled Artists’ Fair_Chelsea Town Hall, London
2007 Christmas Exhibition_Merchant Gate Gallery, Glasgow
Christmas Exhibition_Art Exposure Gallery, Glasgow
Summer and Christmas Exhibitions_Arteries Gallery, Glasgow
Annual Drawing Competition_Paisley Art Institute, Paisley
2006 Painting the Nude_The Chambers Gallery, London
2004 Face to Face (solo show)_East Kilbride Arts Centre, East Kilbride
2002 Girl on a Mission portraits (solo show)_Tron Theatre, Glasgow
Girl on a Mission portraits (solo show)_Starbucks Coffee, Stockbridge, Edinburgh
1994 Portrait Show_Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
Face to Face (solo show)_Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh
1993 BP Portrait Award_National Portrait Gallery, London
Recent Graduates Show_Victoria Street, Edinburgh
Commissions
2009 Nude portrait after Ewan Uglow_Prone
Variety of pen & ink and charcoal nude portraits
Landscape diptych_A sheep’s eye take on Harris
The colour of the Pentlands
2008 Triptych female nude portrait_Three poses
Laid back fiddle
Beautiful curves
Double portrait_A pair of Perries
2007 Triptych nude portrait_Three poses
Nude portraits in charcoal x 2
Four piece portrait_Images of Liz
Double portrait_A couple of Cairns
2006 Triptych portrait_Over and over
Secret Smile
Strictly Confidential
Nude portrait in charcoal
2005 Commissioned by Tony Hart to paint his
grandson
Triptych Landscape_Aviemore Mountainscape
2004 Commissioned by Amnesty International_
Come in - make yourself at home
2 portraits of Bruce Springsteen (from reference
material)
Double drawn portrait_Seated siblings
2003 Max, the Music Man
Jane’s Lap
Time to ourselves
Rugby rules
In the pink
I can see myself in your eyes
Commission via ScotlandArt.com_
A moment of serenity
2002 Triple pencil portrait_Allison, Erin and Ailsa
Everyday Faces personal Project:
Jackie McNamara (Celtic Football Club)_tv
viewing
Tommy Sheridan, MSP_Duty calls
Johnny Ball_Thinking of a Number
Tony Hart_The H(e)art of Art
1992-02 various commissions
Exhibitions
2009 Summer show_Sun Gallery, Newburgh
Tassle tease (solo show)_Guilty Lily, Edinburgh
The Art of the Temptress_Art de Caf Gallery, Glasgow
various group shows_Merchant Gate Gallery and Arteries Gallery, Glasgow
2008 Summer Show and Pre-Christmas Open Studios_Napiershall St Studios, Glasgow
various group shows_Merchant Gate Gallery, Glasgow
various group shows, including the Glasgow Show_Arteries Gallery, Glasgow
Untitled Artists’ Fair_Chelsea Town Hall, London
2007 Christmas Exhibition_Merchant Gate Gallery, Glasgow
Christmas Exhibition_Art Exposure Gallery, Glasgow
Summer and Christmas Exhibitions_Arteries Gallery, Glasgow
Annual Drawing Competition_Paisley Art Institute, Paisley
2006 Painting the Nude_The Chambers Gallery, London
2004 Face to Face (solo show)_East Kilbride Arts Centre, East Kilbride
2002 Girl on a Mission portraits (solo show)_Tron Theatre, Glasgow
Girl on a Mission portraits (solo show)_Starbucks Coffee, Stockbridge, Edinburgh
1994 Portrait Show_Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
Face to Face (solo show)_Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh
1993 BP Portrait Award_National Portrait Gallery, London
Recent Graduates Show_Victoria Street, Edinburgh
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