"Saskatchewan River-Spring Runoff"
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10" x 12"
"Golden Meadow Near Jasper Townsite" - SOLD
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12 x 16
"Robed in Clouds"
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5 x 7
"Near Jasper On The Parkway"
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6 x 8
"Gathering Of Giants"
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8 x 6
"Survivors On The Tree Line"
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11 x 14
"View From The Wilcox Creek Campground"
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16 x 20
"The Wash At The Wilcox Creek Campground"
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11 x 14
"Spring Breakup On The Athabasca River"
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8 x 6
"Hoodoos"
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6 x 4
"View From Whistlers Mountain"
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4 x 6
"September near Parker Ridge Trail"
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12 x 10
"Bow Lake" - SOLD
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4 x 6
"Gorge At Athabasca Falls" - SOLD
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4 x 6
Linda Kauppi was born in Sudbury, Ontario in 1950 and began drawing and painting a few years later. Her grade school books were filled with drawings. Formal training began at age 14 at the Elliot Lake Centre For Continuing Education for four summers where she was introduced to landscape painting, still life and life drawing. She attended Lockerby Composite S.S., which was out of her home district, to receive instruction from a locally renowned artist and teacher, Nellie Keller-Lowe. Linda continued on to the Ontario College of Art for three years. Later, she lived in Whitefish Falls, a small village located where the Whitefish River empties into the northern waters of Lake Huron and is nestled in the midst of the white quartzite mountains of the La Cloche Range. The waters of the North Channel back dropped by the terrain of the northern shore provided endless material for an artist who loves to be “in the bush, on the water and up in the hills” and solidified a love of landscape painting. After a visit to Alberta and a drive to Jasper and down the Icefields Parkway Linda decided she needed to be near the mountains and now lives near Edmonton.
Exhibited:
- Rothmans Centre, Sudbury, Ontario, solo 1977
- La Cloche Country Art Show, Whitefish Falls, Ontario, juried 1979 – 2000
- The Art of La Cloche, Toronto Heliconian Club, juried
- Sudbury Art Gallery, juried 2003
- Northern Ontario Artist’s Association, juried, traveling exhibit 2003 - 2004
- Walden Art Club, Sudbury, group shows 2000 - 2003
Corporate and private collections throughout Canada, U. S. and England.
Artists Statement: “Painting a landscape is an intimate experience with the land for me. With my brush I can touch every feature of the terrain. With mountain terrain, this is a haunting and deliciously lonely experience. Often, what I am seeing, a peak, a view across a mountain valley, is inaccessible to me, aloof and remote and possibly has never felt a human presence on its face. The effects of weather and light on the face of the land are like emotions on the human face and provide endless variety of drama.”
