The Artist
Linda Westmoreland is an Australian multimedia artist who works in two, three and four dimensions. She enjoys the challenge of large-scale works… a passion that she shares with her mother, Peggy Westmoreland, late of the Rockhampton Region of Queensland.
Linda’s portfolio includes murals, sculptures of various sizes and drawings. She uses oils and acrylics in her portraits and traditional paintings. Her mixed-media works encompass an astonishing range of subjects, media and materials.
Linda enjoys the zen-like experience of creating pieces of environmental art which then continue to evolve as the hands of nature and time gradually reinterpret her work.
Linda also embraces digital media to research and explore possibilities in planning her artworks.
Some say Linda has an eclectic style. No matter the medium, the surrealistic piquancy of the Linda Westmoreland style is distinctive and immediately recognisable. Linda attributes this surrealistic influence to Salvador Dali. He has been her life-long inspiration.
CURRICULUM VITAE
| 1984-1986 | Undergraduate Study in Fine Arts, University of Darwin, Northern Territory and Underdale College of Advanced Education, South Australia |
| 1987 | Bachelor of Visual Arts with Distinction in Sculpture Newcastle University, New South Wales Australia. |
| 1987-1988 | Graduate Diploma in Education. Newcastle University. NSW Australia. |
| 1989-2012 | Secondary School Teaching, Visual Arts |
Linda held her first solo exhibition in 1998 in Katoomba, an artistic mecca within the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. She has since exhibited with small and large professional art groups for over thirty years whilst simultaneously raising her family and conducting her teaching career.
Linda has artworks in many private collections and has won several prizes including:
Rio Tinto Martin Hanson Memorial Art Awards for sculpture and painting. (Gladstone QLD) 1991 and 1992.
Yeppoon Show – best of show, painting, (Yeppoon QLD)
Wooli art Competition, NSW, Painting section, First Prize. 2015.
In 2010 Linda moved to Alice Springs where she taught Visual Arts in an ‘All indigenous Boarding School’. In 2012 she returned home to launch her career as a professional artist.
Since then Linda has exhibited in the Clarence Valley Art Gallery’s ‘Art in the Paddock’ events from 2013 to 2016. She presented a solo exhibition of her artworks in 2013. She has had several commissions for paintings and multi media works and has sold works to private collectors across Australia.