I’ve been creating in ceramics for 13 years. For 22 years my professional career was as a residential and commercial Interior Designer. In 2019, I retired to focus full time on being a studio potter/ceramic artist. With the expansion of my studio space, I began teaching hand building in clay in 2016.
Being an artist gives one freedom to use their medium to convey a message, start a conversation, and to tap into the viewer’s own story. The drive in my work the last three years has been in narrative figurative sculpture, using the human and sometimes animal form. So, whether I’m creating the whimsical creatures of The Red Lip Society or The Towers of Women series, my aim is to tell a story with the hope that you find yours as well.
One of my favorite pieces is an abstract that sat on a shelf in my studio unfinished. In 2017 Hurricane Harvey devasted the Houston area with unprecedented flooding. Looking at the dirty muddy flood waters and the visible water line, I knew how to finish the piece. The bottom half of the sculpture had a cold finish technique I learned in Taos. Using stained tea bags, oil paints, metallic powders, graphite and cold wax I created the “muddy waters”. I glazed the top half with a crystalline glaze that created a beautiful blue/green finish. It represents the courage and strength it took to rise out of those muddy waters better and stronger. That piece is called, "The Water Line".
Another favorite I completed in early 2020 is titled, “The Keeper”. It is a figurative sculpture of a woman with a raven on her shoulder whose wing is stretched out as if to comfort her. Behind the woman, tucked into the wing is a
space where I keep a small sculpture created by my late son.
Linda's studio is in Boerne; she is a partner in Gallery 195.