Linda Toomey Art

For me the landscape is about tranquility and peacefulness.  There is a poetry in texture, color and space – in earth, flora, water and sky.  We may all find common bonds in the appreciation of nature and a spiritual nurturing less evident in a world dominated by politics, consumerism and crass communication.  As an artist I would like to take the viewer into a quiet world of solitude, reverence and contemplation.

Water, its reflections and movement, is an integral part of my paintings as well as the textures and colors found in surrounding areas, especially marshes.

I paint with gouache (opaque watercolor) building up layers of color on black archival board.  I also do mixed media pieces, extending the landscape using paintings, pieces of paintings, color copies of the paintings, handmade papers and my photos which have inspired the artwork.

Our summer home is located in the 1000 Islands, NY.  Local landscapes, and coastal marshes have inspired much of my work.

After doing gouache landscape painting for a number of years, I was drawn to the challenge of expressing a similar but more challenging conception of a peaceful landscape using mixed media. Incorporating paintings, parts of paintings, my photos from which the paintings were inspired, color copies of similar paintings and beautiful handmade textured and colored  papers, I create an alternative vision of river and coastal marshes.