7. Linda's 'official' arts training ended in 1991 when she acquired an M.A. in the History and Theory of Sculpture Studies at Leeds University. She was a founder member of the Yorkshire Sculptors Group in 1985 and has exhibited with and without the group at a wide range of venues ever since. She has carried out a diverse range of public and private commissions and has both figurative and abstract work held in private collections throughout the world. Her abstract work is a combination of forms reduced to their simplest elements in terms of colour, material, and relationships, which strongly represent a personal spiritual concern or emotion which derives from the seen and sensed world. 'Three Martyrs' originally derived from a section of memorial plaques within the Cathedral, and media images of anonymous and named individuals who have violently lost their lives in the Iraq war. Each plaque is joined by a black thread which feeds through separately to the other side of the work. These individuals are joined by their fate but ultimately die alone.

Title: Three Martyrs

Materials: Wood, fabric, ceramic, paint, and resin.

Price: P.O.A.

 

11. 'Creed' is Linda's attempt to represent the absorption of 'self' within the activity of prayer. The timelessness of this experience is represented by her use of fractured clay and 'dead' stone flesh colour, combined with the incorporation of the ancient tonsure which represented Christ's 'Crown of Thorns'.

Title: Creed

Materials: Ceramic, wood, fabric, resin.

Price: P .O.A.

Creed