linda arthurs

LINDA ARTHURS

109 ALCINA AVE. TORONTO, ONTARIO M6G 2E7

TELEPHONE (647) 342 -6672 • CELL (647) 668-9291

Blog: http://www.musingart.blogspot.com

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am not young. I am a 62 year old grandmother who has been a painter all her life.

I am at the moment a textile painter, fascinated with ancient Islamic textiles, embroidery

Turkmen, Shiraz, Suzani, Ottoman, China, Han, Ming, Qin, Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasty. There is so much history to discover. I have spent the last few years on China alone and barely touched it. I am attracted at the moment to the tribes of the Middle East. Such richness of native colours. I enjoy doing the research.

I have travelled all over the world with my trusty Canon camera and smuggled back amazing Chinese silk to make floorcloths.

If I were to describe my work it would be a textile painter. I have always been fascinated by ethnic work, cultural contributions, and organic colour.

I am a colour person with floral overtones, curves, Indienne, Jacobean, unusual fabric designs and always on the hunt for obscure work. I tend to paint my own designs which actually are a memory of what I have been researching.

I love detail well done. It shows caring. I believe that my work makes people smile.

I only paint what I perceive to be beautiful things.

If you have lived through what I have lived through as many women will say my age it is a decision to paint beauty, it is a decision not to be old. I plan on being young all my life.

Linda Arthurs

LINDA ARTHURS

18 Davenport Rd Unit 802

Toronto M5R 3M3

Tel: 647 345 1580 cell 647 960 2006

Web site: http://www.musingart,blogspot.com

larthurs58@gmail.com

Born 1949 Montreal

OCA Sept 4 1986 to 89 . Art history, classic drawing and painting. Was the youngest person accepted into the college. 16 years old

Student under Abba Bayefsky, LaBonte-Smith

Have travelled all over the world with my sketch pad and camera and lived amongst the cultures I was most interested in.

Lived in Europe for 5 years, sold works to members of Parliament, met the Queen, and took courses at the London School of Art etc

Returned to Canada, met my husband and moved to the US. Painted murals in California for businesses

Stopped painting for quite a few years, children, marriage etc, Worked with children the neighbourhood with art classes and did a lot of private murals

1985 divorced with two kids, moved back to Canada and was hired by Wine art and became the art director doing advertising, products.

As soon as able, left the corporate world and started to paint full time.

Have devoted all my life to painting and have taken at least 5 years to work and live as a painter. I opened up my own business called Art on the Floor and was pretty successful until the twin towers went down. My business like others went south. Reluctantly went back to work

Presently employed by Montage Support Services and have successfully started many art programmes.Whatever I do , where ever I go it is always about art.

I have shown my work in Art Walk for the past five years, have had shows within Montage