LEESVILLE, La. (KSLA) - A gallery in the west-central town of Louisiana, Leesville, is welcoming a talented Shreveport artist with open arms.
Linda Moss is a Natchitoches-born artist, who moved back to Shreveport, Louisiana, in 2008. Moss has always been an artist, some of her first memories were finger painting at the kitchen table.
“It was always my favorite thing. And then, by second grade, I knew I wanted to be an artist,” says Moss.
She felt like she was always meant to be an artist. Moss has always felt that she didn’t belong in the normal world and art has always been her language. She has been an artist since she was very young.
“I feel like it chose me. I just wasn’t made to be in a cubical. I mean you can, and you do things that you need to do but,-- I don’t feel like I am as good at that kind of stuff. You know I feel like its my gift and my- This is the easiest way to tell the stories I have and the things I run across that I would like to put out into the world,” explains Moss. " I feel like its a language that you speak, and so, I am more comfortable speaking that language than the language of numbers or other world things.”
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Moss is heavily influenced by nature in her work. She specializes in capturing light and how it reacts with nature. She paints mostly plants with beautiful hues of light highlighting their form.
“I was a gardener at one point in time in my life as well, and that comes back into play. I am a little bit of a word nerd, so, I like all the Latin names,” Moss explains her recent focus on plants. “The way the light catches something will sometimes make me stop the car and get out the camera. ‘I gotta capture this’. Anything natural world, that to me is messages from things that are greater than us. "
Moss is a mixed-media artist who works primarily with acrylic paint with caulk additives on canvas woodboard. But, over winter she plans to dabble in oil paints again.
In the past, she used fabric pieces in her art because it reminded her of her childhood, her mother was a sewing artist, so fabrics were always around.
" My mom used to sew when I was a kid, so there were always these giblets of fabric everywhere. And, it just reminds me of childhood, it’s familiar. Its familiar things to put into art. Its inspiration because its part of my past,” says Moss.
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Now, shes begun to look at fabrics and replicate those patterns by painting them into her work instead.
She creates art full-time for a living, alongside her husband Ben Moss, who is also an artist. Both Ben and Linda Moss have very different styles, Ben’s art is very Grafitti and comic-art style work, while Linda’s work is more earthly and traditional. But, communication is easier for them, despite their artistic differences.
“His art and my art is vastly different, but we both understand the basic principles and we kinda speak the same language,” Linda Moss says. “You have a built-in critique, and you have someone that just gets you.”
On Oct. 19, artist, Linda Moss’ exhibition, showcasing her art, will have an opening reception held at the Gallery One Eleven, 111 South 3rd Street, in Leesville, Louisiana. The exhibition will showcase recent artwork Moss has created in the last two years.
The reception begins at 6 p.m.
Leesville is a small but creative hub in west central Louisiana, which has supported and hosted multiple Shreveport and Arklatex artists. Additionally, the town has an art park with work by some Shreveport local artists, including Ben Moss, Linda’s husband & artist, and Uriah Oxford, who was previously interviewed on ArkLaTex Artistry.
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