Artist: Linda Whittemore

Artwork Title: Low Tide A

Medium: Original Artwork, Viscosity Monotype

Artwork Dimensions: 25" x 25"

Linda descended from a multi generational artistic family. Both her mother, Margaret Bedell, and grandmother Margaret Hogarth Trumbull, were artists. Notably Linda's grandmother was an accomplished Plein Aire Painter, her mother also a masterful painter and printmake in her own right. Hence came an interest in Painting and Printmaking for Linda. She began a lifelong relationship with watercolor painting from the age of eight. Linda studied two full years with Roger Armstrong, the past President of the National Watercolor Society (NWS). Other teachers like Chris Sullivan, Christine Nugent, Hiroke Morinue, Richard Nelson, John Cosby, Michael Clements and Don Sahli. Kristine Nugent was a student of Diebenkorn, as well as Phil Dyke, Millard Sheets and Rex Brandt so Linda was able to gain a very contemporary understanding of painting as well as a strong influence by these California Landscape school of painters and, finally, Blaue Reiter Painters of Landscape. Other influences include Motherwell, Hockney, and Sorolla.

Linda has worked in many Printmaking styles. She currently works in Viscosity Monotype, although she is trained in the traditional form of intaglio Printmaking. Her background training as a painter is apparent in her style, with the abstraction of landscapes coming to mind. She creates her monotypes on a Printmaking press in her Kihei studio. Each piece is original; it is created first by painting onto a blank piece of plexiglass, using brayers, rollers and brushes. This painted plate is then transferred to the press bed, and a dampened sheet of 100% cotton paper is then placed over the plate. The plate is then run through the press at high pressure, creating the resultant print on the sheet of paper. To create the next piece, the plate must be repainted with an image again making each piece different, an original artwork. Her works are a story of color and mood, as they reflect our Maui life style. "its all a process, one medium leads to the next. We create from what we know or don't know. My paintings are who I am."

Linda continues to paint scenes around the island further abstracting them in her studio using the Printmaking process. Her watercolor and oil paintings are a prelude to her original monotypes, which are oil based paint and sometimes become mixed media with Metallics Gold and Silver as well as Mica. Recent paintings are done on wood panels, with oil paint delivered by various means: brushes, brayers and anything that represents a means to achieve an end. Her Vision.

Linda grew up in Laguna Beach, California. She attended Laguna School of Art for several years, also Saddleback and Orange Coast College and Miracosta College in Southern California where she studied Printmaking. Linda has also an extensive background in ceramics, she studied with Chris Kinsch (and others) at Laguna School of Art. Linda earned an AA degree for studio art at Miracosta College, and later earned a BA in liberal arts at the University of Hawaii. Her work is represented by several galleries in Hawaii. Linda has been an exhibitor in Maui's statewide show many years for "Art Maui". Linda's work is also part of the Hawaii State Foundation Art Museum Collection located in Honolulu.

For more information about the artist, please visit: lindawhittemore.com/biography