About the Artist

Born in Florida, Linda Batchelor was influenced by her artist-mother amid the lush colors of the semi-tropics and the boomerang shapes and geometric patterns common in the 1950s. Though she has created work in many different media she has concentrated for the last ten years on printmaking, primarily monotypes and relief prints, and collage. With a focus on colors and patterns, Batchelor creates works ranging from stylized bottles and figures to completely abstract pieces. Bill Rodriguez, a reviewer for “The Providence Phoenix”, says Batchelor “…places angular bottles against patterned backgrounds…[Her] flamboyant gypsy color contrasts make her pictures quite reviewable”.

Batchelor has exhibited her work both regionally and nationally in galleries and shows. She is represented by Jacqueline Becker Fine Art Consulting of Newton, MA and Laurie Grossman of Weston, MA. She was chosen by Joan Moser, Curator of Graphic Arts, Smithsonian Art Museum, for the Monotype Guild of New England’s “Coming of Age” traveling portfolio. She also received a prize at the Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show juried by Marc Pachter of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D. C.

Batchelor is a graduate of Brown University in Providence RI and has continued her studies at Maryland Institute of Art, The University of Massachusetts, and with Liz Chalfin of Zea Mays Printmaking Studios. She now resides in Florence, MA and has a studio at One Cottage Street Studios, Easthampton, MA.

Education:

The University of Massachusetts (ceramics and primitive ceramics), 1987 and 1989.

Maryland Institute of Art (graduate studies in drawing, figure drawing, and fiber art), 1975-1976.

Brown University (B.A. in studio art) 1973.

Recent Exhibitions:

"Entanglements", Solo show at Western New England College, Springfield MA, April 2008

National Small Works Exhibition at the N.A.W.A. Gallery, NYC. March 2008, Prize Winner

"Permutations of Love", Hosmer Gallery, Forbes Library, Northampton, MA. February 2007.

“Press Works”, The Karl Drerup Art Gallery at Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH. Juried by Scott Schnepf. October 2006

“Coming of Age”- Monotype Guild of New England Traveling Portfolio. Juror: Joan Moser, curator of graphic arts Smithsonian American Art Museum.

“Pattern and Palette”, solo show at Charles P. Russell Gallery, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield MA. April, 2006.

"Linda Batchelor: Collage and Monotype Retrospective", Reed Fine Arts Center, The Williston-Northampton School, Easthampton, MA. 2005

"One of a Kind", Juried Exhibition at The Canal Gallery, Holyoke MA. Juror: Dwight Pogue. 2004

Artworks Gallery Open Juried Show, Hartford, CT. Juror: Paul Clabby. 2004

Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show, Cambridge, MA. Juror: Marc Pachter, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Honorable Mention. 2003

Duxbury Art Association at the Ellison Center for the Arts. Juror: Cynthia Nartonis. Juror's Commendation Award. 2002.

15th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, Univ. of Wisconsin. Jurors: Frances Myers and Warrington Colescott. 2002.

The Francis N. Roddy Open Competition, Concord, MA. Juror: Barbara Krakow.
2001.

"The Unique Print", Liebig Gallery, Mystic, CT. Juror: Barbara Pagh. 2001.

Other:

Affiliations: Monotype Guild of New England. Past Member and President, Valley Women Artists. Women Caucus for Arts.

Grants: Northampton Education Foundation and Maryland 1% for Arts Commission, Baltimore City College.

Collections:

Alan Alda
Fidelity
Baltimore City College