Linda McCord

(360) 575-3393

email: fineartbymccord@gmail.com

www.lindamccord.com

 Statement

"I do art to escape into a world of solitude where I can go on a creative journey. Although I work in many different mediums, my work usually includes the human figure. I love light and shadow and the way the light forms to make various shapes. It is these shape I focus on in my work. I repeat the positive shape in the negative areas while trying to create a sense of rhythm. I love color but value is more important to me. Contrast of any type excites me. With all my work that involves color, I prefer to use many glazes rather than direct application. I decide on composition and color by doing a series of thumbnail sketches and paintings. I plan my work carefully, and although the major decisions are made before I start any piece of work, I leave room for flexibility while the work is in progress."

Linda McCord, painter, printmaker, photographer

Linda McCord studied art at American River College in Sacramento, California and Lower Columbia College in Longview, Washington where she later became a part-time art instructor. She is a founding member of the Broadway Gallery in Longview, Washington. Linda has shown her work at Portland Art Museum's Rental-Sales Gallery, Northwest Print Council in Oregon Art Works Gallery in California and White Dove Gallery in Washington and many other galleries. She has exhibited her work on an international level. Linda works in nearly all the two dimensional mediums: watercolor, acrylic, pastel painting and all the printmaking mediums. She designs software for embroidery machines and more recently does digitally enhanced photography. McCord lives in Longview, Washington on the Columbia River with her husband, Curly, her dog, Rembrandt, and her cat, Monet.

McCord's Work has been in hundreds of juried competition shows and she has taken over one hundred awards on a regional, national, and international level. Her work is in the permanent collection of Coos Art Museum and Grants Pass Museum of Art in Oregon, Lower Columbia College in Washington, and Saint John's Lutheran Church in California. She was an invitational artist at Museum of the Ozarks NALP winners in Arkansas, and Tacoma Art Museum's, "The Night Tacoma Danced" in Washington.

Solo and Group Exhibits include Barrett House Galleries and North East Watercolor Society in New York, Art Kudos (international) and International Society of Acrylic Painters both online juried exhibits, New England Watercolor Society 11th Biannual, MA, Grants Pass Art Museum, Coos Art Museum, Showcase '92. '93 in Oregon, Paper in Particular in Missouri, Pacific States Printing and Drawing Exhibit in Hawaii, CAL '88 and '89, Haggin Art Museum, Chico Art Center, The Art Works Gallery, Saint John's Religious Arts (international) all in California. Alexander Museum in Louisiana, Sinclair College in Pennsylvania, 12th Annual League of American Pen Women in Arkansas, Northwest Traveling Print Biannual and many others.

Rings and Things Watercolor

Amanda's Image Acylic

Sunday Comics, Watercolor

Closing Time, Watercolor

Yellow Gown, Acylic