Welcome to Hunter Guise Gallery’s Featured Artist: Linda Marie Crabb

Linda Marie Crabb

Painting has been my passion since I was a teenager, when I spent afternoons tucked in the studio of a local artist's home learning classical techniques. That was in Steilacoom, Washington, one of the many places I've lived.I started by painting my sister's horses, and from there decided to paint every day. I wake up, have an idea in my head, and I paint it.I'm trying to paint bigger and bigger and have started a series I call "Classic With A Twist," a take on the Old Masters but rendered in my own cheeky way. I painted my pug into a version of Lorenzo Lippi's Portrait of a Gentleman and replaced the sword in Lippi's The Dragonslayer with a golf club and cheetah. Beachscapes are another favourite subject, often recreated in oils from a sketch or watercolour dashed off inconspicuously on site.

 While I consider myself largely self-taught, I did take an intensive Figure Drawing course with classical artist Juliette Aristides, of Seattle's renowned Gage Academy, at the Edinburgh Atelier of Fine Arts in 2019. I also completed a yearlong course at the Milano Painting Academy in 2023, refining my life-drawing skills and classical painting techniques.

 Now, I am simply happiest at my easel.