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Welcome to Linda's Art I am pleased to be able to share my paintings and drawings with you. Feel free to look around by clicking on the sections shown at the top of the page and I hope you find something that you like. Thanks for visiting. | ||||
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Latest News The Itchen Community Wildlife Art Club goes from strength to strength*. The Club has now had 6 months in the new venue at the Itchen Valley Country Park, and workshop attendance numbers are increasing each time - sometimes it's a squeeze to get everyone in! ICWAC is now completely self-supporting and can afford to have the odd expensive guest demonstrator. At present there is a permanent exhibition at the gallery in the Hedge End (nr. Southampton) Post Office, and at the Nightingale Gallery in Winchester Hospital until 5th April 2008. Many of the paintings shown on this website are displayed at these exhibitions. Coming soon to the Itchen is Falcon High - an opportunity to sketch live Birds of Prey, watch flying displays and take photos. Fair Oak Arts & Crafts Society is also thriving and has lots of interesting demos coming up, including Mitch Waite, who is the Creative Director of the Maison des Arts in France, and Pip McGarry*. *For further information and dates see www.artnetdirectory.co.uk. I'm now leading a very busy life, what with being chairman/secretary of ICWAC and chairman of FOACS, trying to be an active member of the Winchester Art Club, and be a new grandparent as well! Somehow, with all this going on, I still manage to produce at least two paintings a month, and I have some great friends who provide me with lots of material from their exotic holidays. I was most gratified, recently, when I took along the pastel "In the Shade" for a critique at WAC. It wasn't so much the critique (which was quite good, actually) but the fact that, when the painting was put on the easel, from all around the room I could hear people saying "That's a Linda Butcher" and everyone was turning round to look for me - I think I've 'arrived'!!!
At most of the exhibitions I enter, the visiting public are asked to vote
for their favourite exhibit. I was thrilled when seven of my paintings
received this accolade, one even won at two different shows!
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