Linda Reymore
Linda Reymore grew up in an environment that encouraged creativity and critical thinking, even as her professional career ultimately developed outside the traditional art world. She earned a BFA in Fine Arts and later completed a master’s degree in marketing communications. Alongside her studio practice, she has spent many years volunteering in leadership roles within arts organizations, youth arts programs, and nonprofit cultural institutions. This experience has shaped her understanding of art as part of a broader ecosystem that relies on structure, stewardship, and shared responsibility rather than existing in isolation.
Reymore’s studio work is grounded in abstraction, though recognizable forms often surface briefly as points of entry rather than narrative anchors. In her Whimsy in the Abstract series, playful imagery appears within a disciplined geometric framework. Works such as BIG BAD WOLF occupy a space that is familiar enough to invite recognition while remaining abstract enough to resist a fixed interpretation. She is interested in allowing viewers to engage the work on their own terms, without prescribed meaning.
Recurring tensions in Reymore’s practice include balance and disruption, order and mischief, and structure and intuition. Her approach is informed by modernist painters such as Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, who treated abstraction as a visual language, as well as Josef Albers’ focus on perception and controlled variation. These influences reinforce her belief that rigor and playfulness can coexist, each strengthening the other.
Her process often begins with a fragment from previous work, a form, spatial relationship, or compositional tension that suggests further exploration. Rather than starting with a fixed sketch or storyline, she works intuitively yet deliberately, building and adjusting the composition until it reaches a state of visual resolution. Completion occurs when the piece feels settled, when nothing further needs to be added or explained.
Reymore does not aim to communicate a specific message through her work. Instead, she hopes to create moments of pause and quiet engagement. If a viewer lingers, smiles, or feels a sense of curiosity, the work has succeeded.
She continues to expand her abstract language across multiple series while remaining actively involved in arts advocacy and volunteer leadership. These parallel commitments inform one another, reinforcing her focus on clarity, balance, and sustained attention both within the studio and in the communities that support creative practice,
