Linda Bell Wine is a figurative artist. Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1948, she grew up in the small, factory town of Millersburg along the banks of the Susquehanna.
In her senior year in high school, without her father’s knowledge, she sent a portfolio of her work to an art school in London and was accepted. Her dad overruled the idea and so she accepted a scholarship to Penn State to study Fine Arts (Sculpture) and Russian Area Studies. Bad decision. There wasn’t an art gallery within a hundred miles of Happy Valley!
The only “art” she had really been exposed to were billboards, which littered the highways, and the little ink illustrations in her English children’s books.
At Penn State she studied painting with Italo Scanga, Harold Altman and Stephen See, among others.
After college, afraid of NYC, she moved to Washington, D.C., and served as an editor for the Soviet Embassy Cultural Department for 18 years. (Remember SOVIET LIFE?) Along the way, she raised three smart, funny and successful kids. She worked another 25 years alongside her country lawyer husband, and after his death in 2014, she started painting again.
Her subjects are the local landscape and its critters. She paints flowers in profusion, portraits of dogs, cats, chickens, cattle…. Her goal is to use her art as a tool to complement and supplement conservation efforts.
