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Linda Darby

biography

Linda Darby lives and works in Fairfield, Victoria where she is an active member of the arts community. She participates in the annual Fairfield Artist Studio Tour, and has Active status in the Federation of Canadian Artists. Linda is also a member of the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria.

Linda has a B.Ed. at S.F.U. in Burnaby, B. C. and attended the Emily Carr Art University, Vancouver, B.C.  Her focus is contemporary painting inspired from study at Vancouver Island School of Art. Victoria, B.C.

Her work is represented at The Gage Gallery, and the Art Rentals Gallery of Greater Victoria. 
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​where to see or read more

shows: Linda is participating in 'Conjunction' at the Gage Gallery, runs until December 5th, 2015.
                 Little Gems CACGV Show, at the Bay Centre, Nov. 26 to Dec. 16, 2015; 150 Douglas St. (Fort Street entrance across from Starbucks.)
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web: Visit the artist's website for more info and images of her work.
​            The artist has an online store at artcommons.ca/fairfieldstudio/


press: She has an online review with Life as a Human, Sept. 2014 and you can read more about her work in the May 2014 issue of Focus Magazine.

​contact the artist

address: 1130 Richardson St., Victoria BC., V8V 3C8
phone: 250.385.4954
email:​ lmdarby@telus.net

artist statement

My acrylic paintings are abstract compositions.
I like to paint using textures and patterns. My painting process begins with molding paste and other acrylic mediums as a ground for interesting textures that break up the intensity of the surface and add poetic variety.

Then with a planned design of light and dark contrasting colours I compose pathways and movement. I use rectangles, triangles and circles, that interact with each other and lean on the edges of the canvas, to balance relative gravities and weights of colour, size and density.

Through atmospheric blurring with washes I create subtle plays on perceptual and imaginary space. My paintings create a feeling of depth and invites interpretation by suggesting a variety of interactive spaces.

The result is illusory space, a projected plane of scale and colour that evoke associations, rather than representations.

Linda darby - painter

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