About Linda

LINDA DARBY
lmdarby@telus.net
1130 Richardson St.
Victoria, B.C.
V8V 3C8

Come by and visit my Fairfield Studio, Victoria, B. C. by appointment
call 250 882 4954
The “Pacific Northwest Women Artists Oral History Initiative” is a project to preserve the history of women artists of the Pacific Northwest. I am pleased that Melissa Granley, a student from the University of Victoria in her final year of an Art History and Visual Studies degree, selected me, as her choice of a local Victoria woman artist to be interviewed as part of her course and added to the Pacific Northwest Artists Initiative webpage. My interview can be found at the link below.

http://women.pnwartists.ca/linda-darby/
You tube Video of Linda's show "City Light"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs0rt4-mkaw
Read more about Linda's at
http://www.artopenings.ca/events !
Article about my art in "Life As A Human" Sept. 2014
  http://lifeasahuman.com/2014/virtual-art-gallery/colourful-acrylic-cityscapes/

Read more about my paintings in Focus Magazine May 2014.

Artists Bio
Linda born in Fernie, B.C., is a lifelong painter. While studying at Kootenay School of Fine Arts, Nelson, B. C. she was influenced by mixed media art. She completed a B.Ed. at S.F.U. in Burnaby, B. C. then attended the Emily Carr Art University, Vancouver, B.C. Her focus is contemporary painting inspired from study at Vancouver Island School of Art. Victoria, B.C. Linda is an active in the Victoria art community where her paintings have won awards. She welcomes tours of her Fairfield studio.
Linda creates colourful acrylic paintings of geometrical abstractions. They evoke meanings and associations, rather than representations. Many images bring to mind memory and a sense of place. Some are fantasies with a harmonious musical theme. Her lyrical canvases sing with vibrant tones of swirling paint, flowing jewel tones, glazes and rich textured patterns. Depictions of places to visit in imagination, accompanied by fresh approaches to the challenges of making compositions.  Her work has a persuasive sense of depth, drama and play that  promises a dynamic dimension.  In her paintings there are subtle plays on perceptual and imaginary space.  The result is illusory space, a projected plane of  scale and colour that becomes part of an intimate physical encounter.
Please find Linda’s painting, “Forest 21”, $950. for sale at the online Exhibit Sooke Fine Arts July 23- August 2, 2021
Linda  began Forest 21 with applied gesso and acrylic medium over parts of the 36”x 24” canvas. On this textured ground she applied layers of acrylic paint by pouring or brushing. She uses geometric shapes of squares, rectangles and circles of various size to create pathways of mingling of colours, shapes and forms that creates a sense of depth, drama and the play of light in a deep forest.

Curriculum Vitae

Education
2015 Abstract Painting Workshop with Blu Smith, Victoria, B.C.

2014 Social Media, Metchosin International Summer School of the Art

2014 Business of Art, CACGV, Victoria, B.C.

2012 Painting Workshop, Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria, B.C.

2011 Independent Studies, Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria, B.C.

2010 Advance Painting, Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria, B.C.

2009 Intermediate Painting, Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria, B.C.

2008 Art English Course, Victoria College of Art and Design,

2007 Resident Painting, Metchosin Summer School of the Art

2006 Encaustic Painting, Metchosin Summer School of the Art

1981 3 years Emily Carr Art University, Granville Is., Vancouver, B.C.

1979 Batchelor of Education Degree, Simon Fraser University, B.C.

Exhibitions
2021 Sooke Online Exhibition, July 23- August 2, 2021
2018 Victoria Art Council 1800 Store Street December
2018 Victoria Art Gallery Rental "Small Works" December
2018 Sidney Fine Art Juried Show, Sidney, B.C.
2018 Sisters from Other Mothers, Martin Batchelor Gallery, June 2 - 27, 2018
2018 Art Now Juried Fine Art Show, Atrium Building Victoria, B.C., May 25 - 28, 2018
2018 CACGV Look Show March 22 to April 15, 21817
2018 CACGV Women's Show, Victoria, B.C. March, 2018
2017 Sooke Fine Art Juried Show, Sooke, B.C.
2017 CACGV Look Show March 27 to April 9, 2017
2017 FCA Victoria Chapter Spring Juried Show April 6 to 17
2016 Solo show Gage Gallery, Oak Bay, B.C. May 3 to 21
2016 FCA Victoria Chapter Spring Juried Show April 6 to 17
2016 CACGV Look Show March 27 to April 9, 2016
2016 FCA Gallery, Van, B.C. March 1 to 13, 2016
2016 CACGV Women's Show, Victoria, B.C. Feb. 26 to March 13

2015 "Big & Little Ones", CACGV Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
2015 Betwixt & Between, Duo Show, Gage Gallery, Oak Bay, B.C.
2015 Fairfield Studio Tour and Group Show, Victoria, B.C.

2014 Sooke Fine Art Juried Show, Sooke, B.C.
2014 Duo Show, “Good Vibrations”, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
2014 Fairfield Studio Tour and Group Show, Victoria, B.C.
2014 CACGV Group “Look Art Show”, Victoria, B.C.

2013 Sooke Fine Art Juried Show, Sooke, B.C.
2013 Fairfield Studio Tour and Group Show, Victoria, B.C.
2013 CACGV Group “Look Art Show”, Victoria, B.C.

2012 Sidney Fine Art Juried Show, Sidney, B.C.
2012 Solo Show, “Boogie Towns”, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
2012 Fairfield Studio Tour and Group Show, Victoria, B.C.
2012 CACGV, Group “Look Art Show”, Victoria, B.C.

2011 Group Art Show, Sooke Museum, Sooke, B.C.
2011 Fairfield Studio Tour and Group Show, Victoria, B.C.
2011 CACGV Group “Look Art Show”, Victoria, B.C.

2010 Trio Painting Show, Gallery at The Mac, Victoria, B.C.
2010 Fairfield Studio Tour and Group Show, Victoria, B.C.
2010 CACGV Group “Look Art Show”, Victoria, B.C.

2009 Trio Painting Show, Gallery at The Mac, Victoria, B.C.
2009 Fairfield Studio Tour and Group Show, Victoria, B.C.
2009 CACGV Group “Look Art Show”, Victoria, B.C.

2008 Fairfield Studio Tour and Group Show, Victoria, B.C.
2008 CACGV Group “Look Art Show”, Victoria, B.C.
2008 Group Show Collective Works Gallery, Metchosin, B.C.

2007 Fairfield Studio Tour and Group Show, Victoria, B.C.
2007 CACGV Group “Look Art Show”, Victoria, B.C.

2006 Fairfield Studio Tour and Group Show, Victoria, B.C.
2006 CACGV Group “Look Art Show”, Victoria, B.C.

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