About

Biography

Linda Newington studied on the first BA (Hons) Fine Art course at Winchester School of Art in the 1970s specialising in painting. As a student her work was selected for New Contemporaries. She graduated with a first-class honours degree and moved to London where she worked in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum and trained as a librarian. It was here that a significant and lasting interest in natural history developed through curation of the botanical paintings, prints and drawings.

She later  renewed her art practice through drawing and walking with visits to Penwith, Cornwall, San Francisco and Yosemite National Park in the US, the Loire and Lot Valley, France, the northwest coast of Jutland, Denmark, and Shetland.

She has been living in Shetland since 2016, making work in her home studio.

Image by Mark Pilkington

Images by Rhiain Lefton