Art in Public Places - Historic Courthouse - Linda Relis
Domain of the Tricolored Heron, 2005 - Oil on canvas
Linda Relis
Port St. Lucie, Fla.
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Linda Relis was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Yonkers, N.Y. She raised three sons as a single mother and put herself through art and design schools. In 1982, she devoted herself to a full-time career in art. Her painting style was born of her love of nature and her concerns for the fast-disappearing habitat of animals.
She has exhibited her work throughout the United States and has received numerous awards including the National Juror’s Award from LSU School of Veterinary Medicine and an honorable mention in the September/October 2002 issue of Florida Wildlife Magazine. She also was a two-time finalist in the Artist’s Magazine’s competition for her wildlife and floral entries. Relis has had many one-woman shows and was selected to represent Florida by creating a Christmas ornament for President and Mrs. George W. Bush’s White House tree in 2002.
Many of her oil paintings have been selected by Florida’s Art in Public Places Program and are displayed in private and corporate collections.
“Painting wild birds and other animals in idyllic settings is my way of preserving their habitats and pristine landscapes because they re-emerge on my canvas” – Linda Relis