Linda is a London born but Cornwall based potter who exhibits widely around the UK and beyond. She came to clay relatively late having led a ‘colourful’ life, making her debut appearances as an undergraduate at the Tate Gallery in St. Ives, moving onto Ceramic Contempories 2, at the V&A Museum, London in 1995. She has work held in private and public collections, including the Gregg Museum of Folk Art, North Carolina, USA. Sir Terance Conran commisioned her to design and make a range of breakfast tableware for Conran.
Linda has maintained an intense academic profile for many years, she was a visiting lecturer in Contemporary Crafts, Higher Education Course manager, curator and researcher at the Combined University of Cornwall and has directed Arts Council, Heritage Lottery and EU funded public art projects at Falmouth’s Municipal Gallery. Since 2009 Linda has devoted herself totally to being a creative practitioner.
In her own words:
My practice mostly relates to the exploration of the emotive and instinctual, my main purpose being to use unorthodox expressions of colour, line and space. Although I am outwardly immersed in colourful chaos, this
freedom of expression is necessarily underpinned by considered and formal elements of design, manifesting in tangible objects that reflect and focus on love and all that is beautiful in this World,
The method I use is intense, complex, solitary and silent, the studio being my devotional space, my purpose remaining constant regardless of material, method or outcome. I strive to achieve a palpable tension of opposites that is affecting on many levels. I also remain conscious of the fact that throughout history/prehistory pottery has carried the potential for expressive visual surface on a multitude of form, the complexity of which delves beneath transient fashion.
