Author: Linda Craddock

A professional artist for nearly 40 years, Linda Craddock’s work has been collected by the Canadian Contemporary Museum of Photography, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and Art Gallery of Alberta. Her work has been exhibited internationally, nationally, and regionally both in public and commercial venues.

Craddock’s discipline involves the history, landscape, and experience of the prairie and mountain regions of Alberta. Always autobiographical, her work often utilizes mixed-media approach that incorporates drawing, oil and photographic imagery. Linda graduated both from the Alberta College of Art and Design and the University of Calgary, where she earned an MFA. More of her work can be viewed at www.lindacraddock.ca.

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The Small Town and Its Tempestuous Sky

Artist Linda Craddock

Our art editor, Cynthia Close, recently spoke with Linda Craddock, featured artist in Issue #2. Here’s what she had to say about her journey as an artist and the influence of landscape as metaphor.   When did you first realize you were an artist?  Lions jumped out at me from plywood-grained doors at age three. […]

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Art Issue #2

Memory: Woman On Main Street
Memory: Woman On Main Street

Hometown Dreams: Memory and Change

Linda Craddock
 

I dreamed that the sky became the sea. I stood with my mother and father on the railroad tracks that split the town in two. We watched in awe as buildings floated high above the horizon, and away…Read more