Artist Statement
I have been an artist my entire life and irresistibly moved into a life as a professional artist in my teen years.
My life is committed to expressing myself through my art, something I've been doing for over 30 years.
I am drawn to expressing the limitless ways I can move people in my work to help them experience the same
joy I experience with my work in seeing the vibrancy of life in our lives. While I express myself in many ways, my
work often features the whimsy of imagery in our urban lives, notably through my cityscapes. In addition, I have
numerous serigraphs of my cityscapes and am in collections all over the world.
I also love painting horses. I worked for a year on a horse ranch in Arizona that swam horses for their therapy.
I was inspired daily by the beauty of that experience. Many of those images are available on my silk paintings and
in my encaustic works.
In addition, I have many paintings depicting the drama and color of the Amazon Rainforest. I have been there
six times and am always inspired by the beauty of the rainforest and it's animals. It is such an important part of me
that I donate a portion of the sale of each Amazon Rainforest painting to various Rainforest charities.
I currently live in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Please contact me if you would like to visit my studio or learn more about
me through this website: LinneaPergola-Art.com