The following information was submitted in August of 2006 by the artist: 

Linda Ray Lindeborg, born January 27, 1948 in Cambridge, Ohio.

Linda Lindeborg did her undergraduate studies in studio arts at Virginia's Madison College, now James Madison University.  As two dimensional studio work proved to be her forte, she continued her education at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh with emphasis on illustration and graphic design.  What followed was a 25-year, award winning career in commercial art until the time came for her to refocus her energy and talent toward fine art.  Linda and her husband Rik moved from Atlanta to coastal Georgia in 1998 and she quickly gained a regional reputation painting marine and coastal images, primarily in watercolor.  By 2002, she had expanded the focus of her painting to include oil media works, rural southern images and abstracted multi media works which maintain her signature contemporary realist identity.
 
Linda's interest in historic preservation led her to a series of high profile and rewarding projects that propelled her fine art career.  In 1995 she painted the Tybee Island Lighthouse, produced reproductions and donated a portion of the print edition to the lighthouse.  Thus began her Coastal Beacons series of lighthouse images that has generated thousands of dollars for restoration and preservation of the structures.  Two of Linda's Coastal Beacons prints were selected for the collection of the US Department of the Interior.  In 1997, she worked with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to create a painting and prints of the Sapelo Island Lighthouse, a project that raised over $60,000 toward that lighthouse restoration and earned praise from Governor Zell Miller during the relighting ceremony in 1998.  Linda's rendering of the Tybee Island Lighthouse Head Keeper's Dwelling was selected by the US Postal Service for the commemorative first day of issue silk cache envelope at the Tybee Island release of 5 Southeast Lighthouse Postage Stamps in 2003.
 
In addition to inclusion in juried exhibits, solo exhibits and gallery representation, her “A Backroad Journey” exhibit will tour the Southeast beginning in 2006.  Reproductions of her works can be found in framing galleries throughout the Southeast.  Her works are in private collections and in public collections which include The State of Georgia, Seppeltsfield Winery (Australia), US Department of the Interior, McDonald’s Corporation and Darby Bank & Trust Company.  Linda is honored to have been selected to create a painted sculptural turtle for the first public art project for Tybee Island, Georgia.  Her “Terra Turtle” celebrates the Native American creation legend that the earth was formed on a sea turtle's back.
 
"My artwork marries technique to an emotion charged response to the environment.  The landscapes and details are intended to create a strong sense of place and time, exhibiting the effects of light and atmosphere.  I strive to capture each image with strength and immediacy."
 
"I hope the viewer will pause a moment, bringing personal sensibilities and memories to each subject, and discover therein whether the spirit of place speaks.  I want the viewer to feel a familiarity with the art as though filtered through a memory."
 
"I paint in watercolor, oil and mixed media, clearly tending toward realism but with occasional flights into abstraction.  As a result of my training and work as an illustrator, primary to all the work is my commitment to craftsmanship and the enduring principles of design and composition."

Her work is in the permanet collections of the Tybee Island Lighthouse and Museum, Tybee Island, Georgia, and the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum, St. Augustine, Florida

Exhibitions:
1993-94, Genesis I and Genesis II, Visual Arts Center, Roswell, Georgia
1993, Southern Impressions, Arts Center, Woodstock, Georgia
1994, Visionz, Gwinnett Fine Arts Center, Duluth, Georgia
1995, Visionz -- Arts Aloft, Brisco Field, Lawrenceville, Georgia
1996, Common Ground Annual, Atlanta, Georgia
2003-2005, Annual Regional Exhibit, Bascom-Louise Gallery, Highlands, North Carolina (Solos)
2003, Recent Works, Beauchamps Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2005, Coastal Impressions, Hospice House Gallery, Savannah, Georgia
2006 and ongoing, "A Backroad Journey," traveling exhibit of watercolor paintings

Magazines and Periodicals:
Coastal Living, January-February 1998, "Save a Lighthouse"
Savannah Magazine, March-April 2002, "Livin' on Tybee Time" by Brad Swope
Island Living News, August 2006, Interview
Art Business News, August 2006, Artist Profile