Celebrity portrait

I really love painting art ...

ART PAINTING

Linda nelson art

Hello, to old friends and collectors and hello to people who are just discovering my art for the first time.

I hope you will enjoy the stories and details shown in each painting. My art allows me to create a pleasant and happy scene showing great old buildings, beautiful trees and flowers, as well as people really enjoying their lives. Children and animals are my favorite subjects to paint. I hope each child and animal projects personality and a feeling of movement. I suppose dogs and cats are my favorite animals (a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, a Papillon and Miss Kitty share my home), although I adore all animals.

Fortunately, I live in the beautiful rolling hills of Connecticut. Because I have always loved New England, I knew I needed to live here. My childhood was spent on a family farm (begun by my great grandfather, a civil war veteran) in Illinois. His daughter, my grandmother, Belle’s reminiscences of those horse and buggy days always fascinated me. My fondest wish was to wear a beautiful long dress and pick roses all day. Then, of course, I’d paint them! I really enjoyed living my childhood on the farm. I had quiet time and the opportunity to explore and enjoy nature and farm animals.

My love of art enabled me to teach myself to paint. I have learned by doing and perhaps for me, that is the best approach and quite a challenge! I especially enjoy painting our America of yesterday. Telling a story is great fun and it seems necessary for me to tell more than one per painting! I create a world I wish I could be a part of, yet I’m quite aware such a perfect world doesn’t exist. Today, I cherish my home overlooking a meadow surrounded by woods, lots of wildlife and a babbling brook. I love the quiet peace and nature that surrounds. I am grateful.

Sincerely,

Linda Nelson Stocks

Terry redlin

Terry Avon Redlin (born July 11, 1937) is an American artist. His paintings on outdoor themes and wildlife, often pictured in twilight, are widely collected as prints. For eight consecutive years, 1991 through 1998, Redlin was named America's Most Popular Artist in annual gallery surveys conducted by U.S. Art magazine.

Redlin was raised in Watertown, South Dakota. He earned a degree from the St. Paul School of Associated Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota, and spent 25 years working in commercial art as a layout artist, graphic designer, illustrator and art director. His painting "Winter Snows" appeared on the cover of The Farmer magazine in 1977. Two years later, he left his job as a commercial artist to paint full time.

The Redlin Art Center in Watertown is devoted to his works. The Terry Redlin Elementary School in Sioux Falls, South Dakota was named in his honor.

He and Helene Marie Langenfeld married when they were 19 years old. They have three children.