linda m farquharson
Linda Farquharson is a relief printmaker (Linocut) based in Highland Perthshire
creating linocuts and wood engravings. Her work is infused with the outdoor
world and inspiration is never far from her back door.Linda studied Illustration
at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, graduating B A (Hons) in 1986.
She specialised in relief printmaking and continues to work primarily with lino
printing and wood engraving. For many years she worked as a commercial artist
based in Edinburgh, while also exhibiting her prints nationally. Commissions
include W B Yeats’ Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (for The Folio Society 2007) and
Sir Walter Scott’s The Lady of The Lake (for The Association for Scottish
Literary Studies 2010). Now based in Highland Perthshire, her work remains
infused with the outdoor world and inspiration is never very far from her back
door. Among Linda’s most recent work is a series of linocut prints that include
‘The Tree of Life’, ‘Song of the Goddess’, ‘Nine maidens’, and ‘Earth Goddess’.
These bold prints incorporate some of Linda’s favourite images – trees, flowers,
animals and birds together with the female form, and her current preoccupation
with Goddess mythology. Drawing on stories from the Welsh Mabinogion alongside
the legendary Scottish ‘Cailleach’ (expressions of the different phases of
womanhood from maiden to crone) these themes allude to tales of transformation
and the point where humans and nature merge, bringing a powerful new dimension
to her work.
