Linnie Weiss Centerville

Linnie Weiss Centerville, Maryland

I was an emerging artist when I realized that raising four kids, working, and trying to paint weren't

going to work. So I put aside my art for thirty years. Two years ago, I discovered that acrylics could

be used with much the same kind of luminosity obtainable with oil paints, and happily started on the

venture of discovery. In the process, I have struggled with a choice between traditional representational

style ("real painting") and abstract expression ( fun, but not "real art"). Well, thanks to two excellent

teachers, Marie Linnekin and Ann Baldwin, I finally have wrapped my head around the fact that "fun" can

be real, too, and that through abstraction, I can really express what my mind sees -- actually, each painting

takes on a life of it's own, but my mind sees something to start. I am excited about exploring materials and

methods. Primarily, I am interested in color and texture and am really looking forward to finding out what

will come.