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The romantic art style of Linda Coulter, is known internationally and features grisaille and pure color glazes. Linda also teaches bistre and other old master fine art techniques. |
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Linda Coulter, International Grisaille Artist
He taught Linda that an artist must express the truth in one's heart through the art works created. He taught her the joy of pursuing God's will in her life. The combination has inspired Linda's life long journey and professional career in fine art.
Linda started teaching art classes in her hometown of Farmington nearly 30 years ago. As her business grew, she expanded her market to central Illinois by teaching art workshops for Dick Blick and Jeffry Alans chain stores, park districts, and independently-owned art stores throughout central Illinois.
After art class one evening, Linda was approached by one of her adult students to paint for a live audience every week on syndicated NBC television in Central Illinois. She accepted his offer and thereafter enjoyed 5 wonderful years of painting every Saturday morning on WEEK TV 25. More than 160 television appearances made her a well known personality throughout central Illinois. During those happy years, her reputation as an art teacher grew throughout the Midwest and filled her classes with students. Simultaneously, Linda worked to advance her art career in the national and international markets by working at art conventions. During those years she made lasting friendships with the owners of leading manufacturers, publishers, distributors and educators in the art & craft industry around the world. Through the years, Linda has been a museum art teacher at Lakeview Museum of Arts & Sciences, a Smithsonian Affiliate Museum in Peoria, IL. When the Burghley House Collection was a featured exhibit at Lakeview Museum, Linda was thrilled to see each brush stroke firsthand and she was spellbound by the richly saturated colors of the Old Masters' art works. She eventually traveled to the Louvre in Paris to meet with French and Belgian artists as they studied art styles and techniques throughout history. These experiences at the museums were the major influence of the development of Linda Coulter's art style. Through many years of hard work and dedication to her dream, Linda became a master at simplifying complex subjects, merging old world fine art techniques with her own playful brushwork, and using richly saturated colors with confidence. Her specialty quickly became Grisaille followed by pure color glazes which divides and conquers the painting process by breaking it down into bite-sized pieces that beginners can easily learn and enjoy. This enables her students to begin painting their own original art works very quickly. In 1999, Linda received a personal invitation from the CEO of an art supply manufacturer to travel internationally for the purpose of training art teachers in Asia, Europe and Canada. She closed her art gallery and commenced full time travel teaching. During the following decade, Linda Coulter taught and demonstrated her grisaille art style and pure color glazes at international and national conventions. Several of her annual favorites were:
Through those years, Linda Coulter served manufacturers as a designer, demonstrator, educator, teacher trainer, art program organizer and art product consultant. In 2001, PaintWorks Magazine contracted Linda to design a collection of art works with written instructions for a featured article, called "Coordinating with Fabrics - Decorate Your Home with French Country Accents". This collection was featured in the January, 2002, issue of PaintWorks Magazine. A few months later, PaintWorks Magazine contracted Linda again to write another story, this time featuring her grisaille art style. This feature story was entitled, "Colorless Paintings -The Grisaille Secret." When the story appeared in the May issue of 2002, it was extremely well received throughout the marketplace, and launched her formal grisaille art career internationally. In the spring of 2009, Linda Coulter was featured as the cover artist for a Japanese painting magazine, and therein taught an art workshop in grisaille and color glazing to her art students in Japan.
Linda Coulter is an internationally published author with readers from five continents. Her original oil paintings are collected in private galleries in England, Ireland, France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, South Korea, South America, Mexico, Canada, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and several states throughout the continental U.S.A. Linda Coulter has licensed her original art works to manufacturers for global marketing and sales. While travel teaching, Linda was invited to special locations throughout the United States that eventually became favorite Art Getaway teaching destinations.
Linda's students gather for a casual relaxing weekend of painting fun and to learn the the art of grisaille and pure color glazes. Often the featured projects at these Art Getaways are coordinated with that location, thus creating wonderful memories for students and teacher. A few of the favorite Art Weekend Getaway destinations:
Through her camera, sketchbooks and paint brush, Linda has captured the essence of ancient Europe, the narrow winding streets of London and Paris, thatched cottages and ancient stone castles of the English countryside, fields of lavender and ancient rivers. She has painted scenes from all areas of the United States and parts of Canada.
When asked what has been "the wind her sails" throughout her art career, Linda replies, "God gave me some talent, a genuine love for people, an unquenchable desire to share the world of fine art, and an endless quest for adventure through travel teaching." Happy Painting!
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Fifty
seven years ago, a little girl sat by her uncle's easel watching him paint
villages of Europe from his memories. As she watched and listened, Linda's
uncle told his stories in a soft, loving voice as his brush swept across the artist
canvas to illustrate. Curls of smoke arose from his old pipe to carry her
imagination far, far away to Europe, and those memories gently settled into
Linda's heart forever. 
In 1919, Edgar Holmes returned from Europe to his quiet country home in Farmington,
Illinois, as an honored soldier of World War I. In his heart, he carried memories
of Europe and spent the rest of his life sharing them with family and friends
through his paint and brush.
It
has been 40 years since Linda first stepped
into the art/craft industry as a teacher of fine art. During those year, she
has honored her Uncle's dreams and ideals and passed them on to
her art students. 
