Canine Artist Linda Medders-Jackson of The Canine Art Guild

Ever since she was a young girl, Linda Medders-Jackson was convinced that she would become a animal artist. "I was 15 years old when I sold my first painting, a mallard drake", she recalls. "That same year I also won my first ribbons at a local art show."

Since then Linda has went on to win many Best of Shows and Peoples Choice Awards portraying the animals she so loves. Through donations of her art to the Swamp Fox Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation she has also helped revive the once dwindling turkey populations in the Carolina Lowcountry. In 2004 she recieved the Coastal Communities Foundation Grant for a 2 year project painting animals of Berkeley and Charleston counties.

Linda is a self-taught artist who works predominately in pastels, scratchboard and gouache but she is always anxious to try new mediums and has recently added colored pencils and acrylics. She accepts commissions for pet portraits and has even done murals. "The eyes, they draw you into the very being of the annimal, like he's there looking, watching you" viewers of her artwork have commented.

Presently Linda serves as the President of the Goose Creek Artists Guild and is an exhibiting member of five local art guilds including the Charleston Artists Guild. The Equine Art Guild, the Southeastern Pastel Society and the United Kingdom Colored Pencil Society are also organizations in which she is a member.

In a little town called Cross located in the lowcountry of South Carolina is where Linda now resides with her husband and step-daughter. They have a small farm and raise and show paint horses and italian greyhounds.

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