Artist Biography

Art has always been a natural part of Linda's life. She won her first blue ribbon in kindergarten. She was illustrator for her grade school newspaper as well as her high school yearbook. Gladys Whelihan, the Oklahoma City Public Schools Director of Art in the 1950s and 1960s stated, "even in kindergarten, Linda's work showed an exceptional talent not often seen in someone so young. We were always eager to see her new works sent to the Board by her teachers. Her progression through the years was amazing."

Linda credits her parents for giving her the opportunity to develop her art talent. At the age of nine, she studied with the late John Shelby Metcalf, a prominent Oklahoma oil painter. He introduced the artist to oils, which became her favorite medium. Oils have remained Linda's focus to this day. Furthermore, her parents opened her eyes to the natural beauty of this land through trips West and around her native state of Oklahoma. Linda stated, "We always had time to stop and observe a rainbow or watch a thunderhead form."

By the time the artist was twenty, her work had been displayed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Kerr Museum, the Oklahoma Museum of Art, and the Oklahoma Art Center. Her painting "Fall in the Kiamichis" was reproduced in the Bell Telephone pamphlet "Telephone Talk."

In the 1970's marriage and two children interrupted her career. For the next few years art took a back seat to raising her family. Presently, Linda is painting and exhibiting her work throughout the Southwest.

In 1983, the noted landscape artist Wilson Hurley selected her painting to hang in the Art Annual IV. Oklahoma City's Baptist Medical Center featured several of Linda's paintings on their calendars in the late 1980's. Since 1998, the artist has participated in the Gilcrease Museum's American Art in Miniature Show. Her work was also chosen for the Top 100 Arts for the Parks competition in 2001 and 2005. In 2006, The Oklahoma Senate Historical Preservation Committee commissioned Robertson to paint a 5' x 7' painting of Arcadia's Round Barn to hang outside the House of Representatives inside the Oklahoma State Capitol.

The artist's style has been described as a combination of realism and impressionism. Her love and reverence for the land inspires her to record the countryside and the vanishing wilderness of this country. Linda comments, "My desire is to paint a landscape reflecting my love for nature. I want the viewer to feel my emotion and inspiration which led me to paint the scene."

In addition to the Howell Gallery, her work is displayed by galleries in New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah and Illinois.

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