Linda Vickers

Painting
PO Box 433
Burnsville, NC 28714
828-682-1554
lindafvickers@verizon.net
www.lvickersanimalartist.com

Lisa Vickers was born in Many, Louisiana, Sabine Parish, moved to, and graduated High School in nearby Zwolle, a small saw mill lumber town, which boasts a history as colourful as the wild west. It had a Town Marshall who was likened to the famous Beauford Pusser in Walkin' Tall. The Marshall Who Tamed Zwolle, was a book written about his exploits.

Linda had a natural ability for art and from a very young age, was called upon by her school teachers to do many art projects.

Linda's daughter, who also has a natural artistic ability, is a graphic designer living and working in Monroe, Louisiana.

Self taught, Linda paints in realistic detail and loves to capture nature and history.

Linda attended workshops under the renowned Shreveport, Louisiana, wildlife artist Don Edwards. She attended various art workshops in Dallas, Texas, one being with Gary Jenkins well known artist and instructor.

Linda also taught children's basic drawing and foundational studies in oils for adults.

As a member of Sabine Art Guild, Natchitoches Art Guild and Nacadoches, Texas Art League, she participated in and won top honours in many shows including: "Artport", an ongoing exhibition at the Shreveport Regional Airport, the Louisiana Duck Stamp Competition and other fundraising events. She also exhibited in a show in the prestigious Riverside Gallery of Shreveport.

As a skilled woodworker she prefers to make some of her own frames to give her paintings a personal finishing touch.

In 2001, Linda moved to Bermuda to marry Mr. John Elsegood, a graphic designer, director and part owner of Aardvark Communications, Ltd.

Her first solo show in Bermuda, entitled "Artrepreneur," held at Masterworks Gallery in 2003, touched on subjects not yet captured by other artists in Bermuda. She has exhibited in many shows at Masterworks and in the Inaugural Bermuda Artists Exhibition at the opening of the New Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art. She has participated in the "Festival In The Garden", held each year.

Linda has exhibited many times at the Bermuda Society of Arts and their "Art In The Street". Her artwork has been featured in yearly Bermuda Calendars over the past few years. A percentage of the commissioned paintings she did while in Bermuda was donated to several local charities.

June, 23, 2008, Linda and John retired and moved to their mountain home, The Hungry Trout Cabin, in Burnsville, NC.