All posts by Linda Holt

painting of “8 koi”

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8 Koi,  16×20 inches,  oil on panel

There’s a lot of surface experimentation going on in this image.   When I recently posted it on google plus,  many of my colleagues from art school weighed in with positive feedback.   That fuels my soul.

 

If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’  then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.  – Vincent Van Gogh

Turner, Gibran and Van Gogh

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Don’t you wish you could?  –  J.M.W. Turner responding to an elderly lady who haughtily told him,  I don’t see what you’re seeing!
Art is a step in the known toward the unknown.  –  Khalil Gibran
I want to touch people with my art.  I want them to say ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.’  –  Vincent Van Gogh

 

 

newfoundland dog portrait, tryptych

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Nick,  24×36 inches,  oil on panel

Nick and Nora,  24×36 inches,  oil on panel

Nora,  24×36 inches,  oil on panel

 

Unfortunately,  I never had the opportunity to meet these lovely dogs.    This series was commissioned by a fellow Penn alum (Penn pal) after their respective deaths.    We used a variety of photos,  and pool images to improvise a composition for this lively trio.     When I finished the painting,  the pool house for which it was designed was still under construction.    Now they hang and can be viewed just before swimmers enter their pool in West Chester,  Pennsylvania.

Reflections, Willows 3

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This  54×60 inch painting ,  an old friend ,  was recently returned from the Harris  Gallery in Houston,  who decided it was time to close its doors after 30 something years in business.    We enjoyed a great run together!    I remember painting this scene  as though it were yesterday,   even though it was painted  in 1992.   The inspiration was a lovely spot on Coolidge Point in Manchester,  Mass where I once lived.    Not so far from where I continue to paint and live today…