Linda Schwab
Linda Schwab is a painter, living in Leeds.
She is a graduate of the University of Central Lancashire has a MFA in painting from the Slade School of Fine Art.
Early success as a prizewinner in the Northern Young Contemporaries was followed by a varied career including commissioned artist, illustrator, teacher and public artist.
She has exhibited in the UK and Europe and her work is held in private and public collections.
The source material for all the works is photographic; Schwab’s own photographs of place, scene and found imagery of people.
The initial found photo is distanced from its original format / physical reality by the addition of another image of another place and time, producing a sort of double exposure. Using multiple images enables the figures in the paintings to transcend the familiar to sit, or stand, within a metaphysical, dreamlike environment.
resonates with viewers, for Schwab it’s not about memory but continuity, our little lives recorded, then and now.
The subjects are held momentarily; here they are standing on a beach at sundown, picnicking, posing with their pet. They are instantly familiar but the setting is not, it’s a painted place with blurry edges.
