BIOGRAPHY
Linda MacDonald, a native Californian born in Berkeley, lives north of the Bay Area in a small Mendocino County town. After college, she and her artist husband wanted a more rural life and moved to a cabin with acreage in the early 1970s. Over the years she has taught in universities, colleges, art centers and high schools and now maintains a studio in her home.
MacDonald began her art career as a painter, switched to textiles in the 1980s and as her work evolved, she returned to canvas and paper. She has shown extensively in the US and Japan and has work in the collection of The White House, the City of San Francisco, the Museum of Art & Design (MAD) in NYC, the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska and in many private collections.
Her current concerns are the California redwood trees: their conservation, appreciation, knowledge, discovery and stewardship. She hopes to increase awareness of their plight through the many facets of her artwork. An interest in the redwood tourist attractions of the past portraying remnants of an earlier era in logging are of special intrigue.
