She is a self taught artist who discovered her talent in her 30's when she was between countries and had a year off to freely experiment without rules or boundaries. In this time, she played with various mediums but fell in love with old school egg tempera. Linda mixes actual crushed stones and minerals with a bit of egg yolk to create amazing colors. Blues come from crushed lapis lazuli, greens from malachite, and her ocher colors come from the ancient ochre mines in France and Italy.