A Marine Corps Brat and daughter of transplanted Florida Natives, Linda Stanley had the privilege of growing-up traveling throughout our beautiful country. She worked her way through the University of Florida, as a graphic artist for the School Board of Alachua County, earning her BFA in painting, in 1972. Linda’s decades of experience spans illustration, the graphic arts, and stage set design. A highlight of her commercial career was her six years in the Governor’s Office Graphics Department, where she was Art Director, during Governor Bob Graham’s Administration.

   "My motivation for painting is the act of painting itself  and the freedom it gives me to show my view of the world: bits of my Florida, the southern wetlands and mountains, and fantasies of my mind. I am pulled in many directions--from realism through surrealism. I also enjoy illustrating local color;  I begin with a general idea, subject or scene, and as the painting develops, it seems to find its own way, its own story to tell. Weather, lighting conditions, and movement fascinate me." L. Stanley

Associations and Memberships:
Artists of the Paint-L
Mississippi Art Colony
Plein Air Florida

Current  Gallery Representation:
Dixie Daisy's Florida Art Gallery--330 Corey Avenue,
St. Pete Beach, Florida  33706

Selected Exhibitions:

Featured Artist-Dixie Daisy's Florida Art Gallery, St.Pete Beach, December 1-31, 2004
Juried  Show “The Art of Living” - The Lofts of Winter Park Village, Winter Park, Florida  December 12- February 21, 2004
Florida Artists Registry 1st. Annual Members Exhibition - Church Street Gallery of Contemporary Art, Orlando, Florida  November 20-January 17, 2004
“Magical Nights” Exhibition - Center For Spiritual Living, Orlando, Florida  December 7, 2003
Solo Show: “Bit’s of My Florida”-Bank of America, Lake Forest Branch, Sanford, Florida  October 23- November 24, 2003
Installation of “Koi Chair”- Austin Coffee and Film, Winter Park, Florida   October 2003
“Bits of My Florida” – DGM Gallery, College Park, Florida,  August- October  2003
“Our Vanishing Wilderness Show” – Windermere, Florida,  June-July 2003
“Plein Air Painters of Central Florida” – New Smyrna Beach Gallery,  New Smyrna Beach,  Florida  July 2003
The Orlando Opera Guild’s 30th. Designer’s Show House at Windsong, Winter Park, Florida  April-May 2003
3rd. Annual St. Petersburg Invitational Paint-Out - St. Petersburg, Florida   Show May 1st.-8th.,2003
 “Arts in Nature Plein Air Show”- Mead Gardens, Winter Park, Florida,  March 23-29, 2003
“Real Gardens- Virtual Friends- International Artists of the Paint-L” -  Bush Gallery, Augusta, Georgia  October 11-November 30, 2002
“Colony Show” – Mississippi Art Colony, Jackson, Mississippi   September 2002