Linda Connelly is a lifelong New Yorker who spent the first 20 years of her post graduate career in advertising and marketing before embarking on a full time art career. She has never looked back.

Her painting style favors the impressionists, who remain her favorite painters; her love of the colors used by the fauvists is particularly evident in her pastels.

Linda has studied at the Art Students League of New York and the New York Academy School. This year she was awarded a scholarship by the prestigious Pastel Society of America.

She dedicates her painting to the memory of  Richard Pionk, her first teacher and friend, from whom she learned one of her most important lessons: "Painting is a process of correction.” Linda has studied extensively with Nicki Orbach, Joseph Peller and Gregg Kreutz, great painters and teachers.

In addition to exhibitions at the Art Students League, Linda has been in several shows aboard the SS Lilac, a retired lighthouse tender which is converted to a floating art gallery throughout the year, and at the Kent Art Association in Kent, CT.

Linda Connelly
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