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ABOUT THE ARTIST: Linda Halcomb
As I young child I loved to draw and spent hours sketching horses and designing paper dolls. I completed my first painting for a 4-H Craft project. As an adult I fell in love with the beauty of watercolor and spent years as a weekend artist. I was finally brave enough to exhibit for two years at the Riley Days Festival in Greenfield, Indiana and was lucky enough to win several awards in drawing and painting. In 1994 I started work on my Masters degree and necessity forced me to stop painting.
In February 2007, after twelve years of inactivity, I picked up a brush again. I now paint because I love to paint and I realize that I am just at the beginning of a rewarding and challenging journey. I have so much still to learn. I do however have a philosophy: I do not want to hit the viewer over the head with a message. I just want to share my love of watercolor with its pure, luminous color - its brilliance and delicacy.
Renoir said it best, “A picture must be an amicable thing, joyous and pretty - yes pretty! There are enough troublesome things in life without inventing others.”
Memberships:
Watercolor Society of Indiana, Chairman - Outreach Programs Hoosier Salon Indiana Plein Air Painters Association Southside Art League CrazyLake Art House Plein Air Painters
Competitions:
2007, 2008 Will Vawter Exhibition 2007, 2008 Riley Days Festival, Several Awards 2008 State Fair
Shows:
Hoosier Salon Salon de Refuse 2008 Member’s Show 2008 Holiday Show 2008 Hancock County Arts & Cultural Council Historic National Road, Red and Artist’s Choice Exhibits 2007 and 2008 Watercolor Society of Indiana Regional Show 2007 Member’s Show 2007 and 2008 Eagle Creek Coffee Company 2008 Midday Gourmet Catering & Deli - One Woman Show 2008 LULU’s Electric Cafe - One Woman Show 2008 Barnes & Noble - Clearwater - One Woman Show 2008
See samples of her work.
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