A select few collector comments about Linnea's artwork.

This work will be in the 2023 Calgary Stampede in the Western Oasis Mini Gallery. Go check it out!!! Work created in the momentum of Covid., and the series continues on...where everyone needs a support system behind them, or something that supports your being by re-energizing yourself! Not necessarily re-energizing yourself in the scene to run a marathon but to just keep going on. Sometimes it's that tiniest pebble but it's your pebble, there for you.

This traditional medium of watercolour on a nontraditional watercolour sub-straights gives these watercolours a contemporary feel. Watercolour doesn't necessarily come to mind when we think about contemporary art, Linnea challenges this perception. As Linnea works on a number of paintings at one time, this encourages her to work swiftly and directly, shifting between works, sometimes to linger and work intensely, and at other times moving rapidly. “My work is a response to the edges of landscape, the meeting of land and the vibrations within, where mass meets fluids, and earth holds movements” Revealing translucent layers with a soft dreamlike quality to the edges of the work. ·Finished with an archival protective layer- no framing behind glass required. Seismic Happenings | Inner Self I ponder what is happening down below the surface we walk on. I ponder how vibrations happen and how these vibrations start! · I ponder what vibrations we create as an individual? I ponder what an individuals reverberation is within ones self. Do your create good vibrations within yourself and for the land and people your vibrations effect?

My work is in the form of Modern Landscapes and snapshot details of nature. Using Canada’s vast mountains and never ending prairie to give me inspiration; “Love for the unspoken words of nature.” It has been said that Linnea's "Mountain paintings are so cleverly laconic " My intention, to spark personal recollections in the viewer from an unconventional perspective, moving pigments that are suspended, extracting pigments, manipulating the smallest pigments creating layers of transparent colour, playing on depth with slight transitions to add complexity and mystery within the surface, leaving a translucent history. I see these layers as a metaphor for life; the pigmented puddles are the quiet moments of rest, absorbing over time, the layers we create from memories, dreams and reflections. Some unseen solid layers and some layers seeing right through to the first brush stroke. I do not want to recreate an exact replica of mountains but using strong, bold and unexpected colours, using the shadows, the highlights of snow and creases within the mountains creating a representation, a feel and essence of a mountain. Something similar to the mountains when their beauty has touched your soul!

“Ripple Effect” Water – Space – Time – Energy I was first inspired to create Ripple Effect Series by watching a water drop hitting the surface of a calm body of water. Slow motion watching water drip Nature breathing out through space and time
 it lands
 
 then a ripple... In a glass of liquid
 in a puddle
 a pond a lake the ocean I breathe in... and out again I contemplated the ripple and its effect. Reflecting on space, time, relationships, interactions between people and energy. There is a ripple everywhere. Sometimes we can see it and other times we feel it. There is energy bouncing around and between objects. It vibrates around us, between us and through us. It is the relationship we have with, and to, each other. It ripples through business and personal relationships and through our spirit and souls. It makes us cling to each other and move away from each other. As the ripples expand they encompass and include us all. Ripple Effect is an expression of how we connect through: Energy Space Time Ripple Vibrations What’s your Ripple effect?

My work is driven on the ancient and re-emerging medium of encaustic; beeswax and resin, worked in a molten state with the added pigments of oil paint. My work is in the form of abstract landscapes and snapshot details of nature, exploring ideas of reflection, vibrations, movement and ideas of seismic. I don't necessarily always ponder what is happening above ground but happenings below! Reflecting on space, time, relationships, interactions between people and energy. My intention, to spark personal recollections in the viewer from an unconventional perspective, carefully building layers leaving a translucent history, (obsession with layers!) using depth of colour, luminescence, sculptural textures and surface transitions, transitions of slight sodalities. Though the fluvial and sculptural qualities of wax, I navigate memory. The complexity of this process takes me on a journey each and every time I paint, the adding and subtracting of the wax revealing layers that have pre excited and the conscious decisions of leaving layers un touched, and some built up for sculpture aspects. The multi layering of wax I see it as a metaphor for life; the conjunction between nature and the layers we create from memories, dreams and reflections. The melting wax challenges real and perceived boundaries present in life and proves that our imaginations and intuition alter the stagnation or fluidity of all boundaries. This work will change every time you study it. The dance with the molten wax back and forth embarks me on a journey to the mystery of the 'not knowing'. While working I keep myself in a fluid balance between meditation and examination until a satisfying equilibrium is reached. Not knowing when the piece is done until it is worked and reworked when that journey is complete. The hands-on labor and the intensive process leaves me with pieces that have many layers of mystery and metaphor, with my aim to create a calm core within disarray, leading the eye through a multi layering journey of great depths, stirring that reflection or emotion for the viewer.

This traditional medium of watercolour on a nontraditional watercolour sub-straights gives these watercolours a contemporary feel. Watercolour doesn't necessarily come to mind when we think about contemporary art, Linnea challenges this perception. As Linnea works on a number of paintings at one time, this encourages her to work swiftly and directly, shifting between works, sometimes to linger and work intensely, and at other times moving rapidly. “My work is a response to the edges of landscape, the meeting of land and the vibrations within, where mass meets fluids, and earth holds movements” Revealing translucent layers with a soft dreamlike quality to the edges of the work. ·Finished with an archival protective layer- no framing behind glass required.

My work consists of, but not all containing, found objects, image transfers, layer upon layer of wax, the inscribing and carving of the wax itself. The dance with the molten wax back and forth embarks me on a journey to the mystery of the 'not knowing'. While working I keep myself in a fluid balance between meditation and examination until a satisfying equilibrium is reached. Not knowing when the piece is done until it is worked and reworked when that journey is complete. The hands-on labor and the intensive process leaves me with pieces that have many layers of mystery and metaphor, with my aim to create a calm core within disarray.

With the chaos of Covid-19 I found myself stuck to the couch in a trance...one recovering from a toe surgery and one in a state that I needed to know what was transforming. In this time I found comfort in mindlessly drawing lines in my sketchbook, keeping my hands busy, going back to the basics of embroidery. With doing this the embroidery lead to more textiles. I love to weave and started to create textile works, created out of the comfort of memory...swings and tress. This work represents the inner twisted complexity of nature with a simplistic yet tedious outcome. Keeping my hands busy while still is just me. “Love for the unspoken words of nature.” That and the comfort I get from creating is what inspires me.  Linnea’s work is in the form of landscapes and snapshots details of nature, exploring ideas of memory of nature, vibrations, movement and ideas of unseen vibrations and energy.  Linnea's work carefully builds layers upon layers, building depth with slight transitions of slight sodalities, her work upon these layers adds complexity within the space to create a textural history, illusion of depth; stirring a memory or an emotion for the viewer.

Linnea’s work is in the form of abstract landscapes and snapshots of details of nature. Carefully building layers of depth with transitions of slight sodalities this work will change every time you study it. Her work consists of, but not all containing, a watercolor painting, found objects, image transfers, layer upon layer of wax, the inscribing and carving of the wax itself. The dance with the molten wax back and forth embarks Linnea on a journey to the mystery of the 'not knowing'. While working I keep herself in a fluid balance between meditation and examination until a satisfying equilibrium is reached. Not knowing when the piece is done until it is worked and reworked when that journey is complete. The hands-on labor and the intensive process leaves Linnea with pieces that have many layers of mystery and metaphor, with my aim to create a calm core within disarray.

Linnea works in several different mediums. She uses the attributes of Encaustic to add complexity within the surface of her paintings to create an illusion of movement; stirring a memory or an emotion for the viewer. Linnea’s work is in the form of abstract landscapes and snapshots of details of nature. The Yellow West Series is a reflection of the vast land which Linnea lives so close to. Canola fields will bloom within a summer time frame and grace the prairies with the glow of golden yellow that vibrates and moves with the wind. Carefully building layers of depth with transitions of slight sodalities this work will change every time you study it.