Linda MacDonald

Linda MacDonald was born in Berkeley, grew up in Marin, and graduated with a BA (1978-painting) and MFA (1991-fiber) from San Francisco State University. She has lived in Mendocino County for over forty years and has been painting the north woods and the coastal redwood trees for many years.

Her early work, in the 1970s and 1980s, was in fiber and the contemporary quilt in particular. She showed in many venues and galleries world wide and was known for her large, dynamic, spatial pieces of the 1980s. She returned to her first art materials and methods, painting in oils and watercolors, in the 2000s. A love of narrative subject matter and the need to master painting techniques led her back to these mediums.

She has work in the permanent collection of MAD (Museum of Art and Design) in NYC, in the City of San Francisco, in the International Quilt Museum at University of Nebraska, in the Mendocino County Museum, in Hall Art Technology Foundation (HAT), and also in many private collections. She has taught in many places: art centers, San Francisco State University, community colleges, fiber symposiums and at length in an alternative high school. She currently maintains a studio in Willits and also one at Shipyard Artists/Hunters Point (studio 2507, Bldg. 101). She acts as a juror and lecturer, and shows her work at Stewart-Kummer Gallery in Gualala, CA.

For more information about the artist, please visit her website.