1945 - 2011

Dear wife, mother, and grandmother
Intuitive artist
A giver with a great heart

Loved by many

Linda Louise Carroll Wright draws and paints subjects close to her personal and emotional life, including still lifes, room interiors and portraits. She looks for the beauty in nature and in intimate environments where shape, color and light communicate feeling. She chooses to make intimate works that draw in the viewer to experience the richness and timelessness of a moment. She especially enjoys finding and emphasizing the relationships among the parts and balancing observation with composition. Her media are pastels, acrylic paints and watercolors.

Linda was born on May 2, 1945, in Chicago, Illinois, but moved at an early age to Los Angeles where she grew up. At twenty two she fell in love with and married forever Thom Wright. She began her interest in art during college and encouraged Thom to begin art also. While still working full time as a switchboard operator, she attended and then graduated in 1973 from California State University Los Angeles, with a BA in History and a minor in Art History.

After raising her two children, Christopher and Julia Ann, and retiring from a working career at Santa Ana College in 2003, she has taken art classes at Santa Ana College and Coastline Community College.

Linda has been a member of Southern California Artists since 1992 and participated in some of their exhibitions. In 2004 she became a member of Studio 250 where she primarily works in pastels. Since 2007, she has been a member of the Huntington Beach Art League and USPA Pastel Society where she has won several awards. She passed away on September 7, 2011.