About the Artist

Linda Mann’s dramatic still life paintings evoke an ordered, stylized reality. Mann paints with an understanding of how people see and know the world, not by recording every detail, as a camera or computer would, but rather by observing the essential, and editing out the unimportant and distracting. Working exclusively from life with no reference to photographs, she observes the ephemeral effects of light and how they appear to the human eye, re-creating the experience in oil paint. Through her selective and heightened focus and dramatic lighting, everyday objects are imbued with weight and meaning. In unstable times, it is valuable to step back and be reminded that despite chaos, the world is still understandable and beautiful.

Linda Mann lives and works in Bellevue, WA. Mann studied at the Gage Academy of Art (Seattle, WA) and The Academy of Art College (San Francisco, CA). She has been painting for nearly three decades and has had solo exhibitions at the Hyatt Regency (Bellevue, WA) and Quent Cordair Fine Art (Burlingame, CA). Mann is represented by Quent Cordair Fine Art. Her oil paintings have been featured in Create! Magazine. She has been selected Associate Living Master by the Artist Renewal Center as well as a Finalist in their 2020, 2021, and 2022 International Salons. Her dramatic realist still life oil paintings combine classic techniques with contemporary lighting and subject matter.