photo by Mohamed Hassan
I have been a painter for 35 years and began working in glass 14 years ago. I work with various media and am constantly trying to find the best way to express my ideas.
My inspiration remains firmly rooted in landscape and my work is driven by a desire to move away from pictorial representation to make work fuelled by ideas that underpin and investigate a sense of place.
I have previously exhibited my paintings widely with The Adam Gallery in Bath, Martin Tinney in Cardiff and New Academy Gallery in London, and I continue to show my work in my own studio gallery, Oriel Linda Norris Gallery in Pembrokeshire.
As an architectural glass artist I work both independently and with Rachel Phillips in a creative partnership called Studio Melyn. Since 2012 I have independently completed both private and public commissions including gates for Strata Florida Abbey and windows for Skokholm Island Bird Observatory. As Studio Melyn, Rachel and I have completed architectural glass commissions for Cadw at Conwy, Beaumaris Castle and Caernarfon castles in North Wales, in a local sheltered housing scheme in Pembrokeshire, Skokholm Island and for Blewbury Church in Oxfordshire.
I have won a number of awards for my sculptural work in glass, including winning the international Warm Glass Prize in 2012 and the Adrian Henri poetry in Art Prize in 2013, I have shown in the British Glass Biennale in 2015 and 2017. In 2016 I was commissioned by Contemporary Art Society Wales to make a glass sculpture for Narberth Museum. My work has been exhibited at the British Glass Biennale in 2015 and 2017. I am currently developing new work in glass in response to the archaeology and landscape of Wales.
I maintain a life-long commitment to bringing arts activity to people in my community and teach an annual residential painting course on Skomer Island.
Click here to watch an interview with Linda made by Amanda Roberts and Michael Blackwood Barnes for CraftHub EU.