Exhibitions
Linda Gourley
August 10 - September 21, 2007
Boatwright Gallery
Dry Fork, Virginia artist, Linda Gourley, was born and raised in Pittsylvania County. She attended Arrowmont Art School in Tennessee, Penland Art School in North Carolina and received a B.A. in Art from Averett University. Gourley is a full-time professional artist and a part-time art teacher at Forest Hills and Schoolfield Elementary Schools as well as a part-time instructor at the Danville Museum. Gourley travels the States participating in many art shows throughout the year. She has won several awards from Juried Exhibitions such as: The Centerfest Art Show in Durham, NC; The Roanoke Art Show in Roanoke, VA; and the Piedmont Park Invitational in Atlanta, GA. Gourley has exhibited her work for 30 years all over the country and has had 7 local one-person exhibitions. The work of Lindy Gourley is in numerous public and private collections.
Linda Gourley uses a variety of printmaking techniques, including hand-colored etching, collography, and chine colle, along with collaging textiles, ink colors, and handmade papers to create fantastic and whimsical prints. Inventing innocent and simple human and animal forms, Gourley's works represent humorous and magical situations set in rainforests, gardens filled with spirituality, and imaginary fairytale kingdoms. The contrasting qualities of such elaborate artistic technique combined with Gourley's naive and child-like characters produce a vitality of expression unique in style and content.
