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Salut! to a New Year
I love the beauty, stillness and serenity of the birds. The women in my latest works are very self-contained, serene, much like the birds.

Linda H. Post
Jan 5, 20222 min read
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A View from the Mezzanine
"Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the...

Linda H. Post
Nov 14, 20212 min read
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Six Squares x 16
There is something calming and predictable about a square. Right angles, equal sides. In a painting, the composition can be... well......

Linda H. Post
Sep 7, 20211 min read
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Past Lives
Creating archival prints from my work has been a learning experience. I worked closely with my long-time photographer, Stephen...

Linda H. Post
Jul 27, 20211 min read
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Now for something completely different...
This is Soliloquy. The fifth in my series of 16" square oil paintings. The setting is still Guanacaste, Costa Rica, loosely based on a...

Linda H. Post
Jun 2, 20211 min read
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Dance of the Pelicans
There is a meditative quality to this painting. The warmth of the sunlight, the soaring birds, the billowy clouds, the dancer's pose....

Linda H. Post
Apr 9, 20211 min read
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Costa Rica Dreams
The fourth 16" square oil painting in this series is halfway finished. The first three have been professionally photographed. Take a...

Linda H. Post
Mar 13, 20211 min read
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Monkey Island. Pelicans. A tutu!
The fourth 16" square painting is on the easel. This one features the girl in the red tutu from The Procession of Hope and Feathers,...

Linda H. Post
Feb 12, 20211 min read
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Four Square
This new project - a series of 16" square paintings on wood panels - has challenged me to work in a much smaller format. Each of these is...

Linda H. Post
Jan 17, 20212 min read
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Past and Future Lives
At the start of this new year, I find myself reflecting on work that sold long ago to mostly private collectors. I don't expect to see...

Linda H. Post
Jan 1, 20211 min read
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A Circle of Magpies
During the winters of 2018 and 2019, when travel was still feasible, I spent a good deal of time in Costa Rica. I stayed in a house on...

Linda H. Post
Dec 24, 20201 min read
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A Story in Sixteen Inches
This is the second in a new series of 16" square paintings on wood panels. I don't often work in a square format, but I do like the...

Linda H. Post
Dec 9, 20201 min read
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Hit Pause. Paint a Square.
The nude in the foreground is painted mostly from my imagination. I taught figure drawing from models for many years, so anatomy is...

Linda H. Post
Oct 27, 20201 min read
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Little, Big
The scale of my recent work projects the feeling of being able to physically enter the painting’s terrain and become part of the narrative.

Linda H. Post
Oct 16, 20201 min read
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Placing Art in a Room
Collecting art, displaying art in your home - how will it look in a room? Much of my art is large in scale and full of color, but it works.

Linda H. Post
Oct 3, 20202 min read
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Almost Home
This is the final stretch. With just a few tweaks (mostly bottom right, upper left) this painting will be ready for a professional photo...

Linda H. Post
Sep 17, 20201 min read
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Really Red
There are so many shades and tones of red. Hot, cool and soft. In the dead center of this eleven-foot painting is a girl wearing a...

Linda H. Post
Aug 13, 20201 min read
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Hand Over Hand
There are seven hands to paint in this mural-sized "parade of hope and feathers". I've written about hands before. I have always...

Linda H. Post
Jul 11, 20201 min read
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Filling in the Blanks
I usually have a fairly clear image in my head of where I want a painting to go. Of course, there are days when I stand in front of the...

Linda H. Post
Jun 23, 20201 min read
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Stripes and Dots and Blue Skies Forever
In my last post, I wrote about the architecture of a painting - and specifically the very complicated Victorian gazebo that anchors the...

Linda H. Post
Jun 7, 20201 min read
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