Linda Schwab studied BA Fine Art in Preston and has an MA in painting from the Slade School of Fine Art. She has worked as an illustrator, educator and Public Artist and has now returned to painting full time.
The starting point for her work falls into two categories; ‘recent events’, from life or mobile phone photos and ‘recreated events’, from archive or found photographs.
The paintings capture something mysterious and unknown, someone or something seen at a distance, and committed to memory.
She describes the process of painting as starting with an objective record and ending with an attempt to capture what can be sensed at the peripheries of vision.
Linda has paintings in private and public collections and award winning public art in situ in Leeds City Centre and hospitals across the country.
COLLECTIONS
Unilever, Calderdale, Dean Clough, Leicestershire,
Absolut Vodka and Private Collections.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 London Art Fair
2023 RA Summer Exhibition
2022 RA Summer Exhibition
RWS Open
Group Shows - Contemporary 6 & Old School Gallery
2021 Group Shows - Contemporary 6 & Old School Gallery
2018 ‘Me and You’ Dean Clough Galleries
2005 ‘Situation Leeds’ various venues, Leeds
2000 Lancaster Festival of Digital Arts 2000
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 ‘Lost Domains’ Contemporary Six
2012 ‘Supernova’ Royal Pump Room, Harrogate
2001 ‘War Stories’ Leeds City Art Gallery and Leeds station
AWARDS
2009 Leeds Architecture Award, Public Realm + Landscape,
2009 BBH - Best Use of Visual Art, Bristol Heart Institute.
2000, 1993, 1992, Yorkshire Arts.
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
Newcastle Cathedral, Alder Hey in the Park,
City Care/Hull NHS, Leeds City Council,
Chrysalis Arts, Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital,
Peterborough NHS Trust, Leeds Teaching Hospitals,
Greater Glasgow & Clyde NHS, Bewley’s Hotel,
Public Art Leicester.
