Linda Johns

Since graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2003, Linda has been creating and showing sculptures in galleries and sculpture gardens across the UK. Her sculptures have been commissioned for public and private gardens, including a three metre by 5 metre sculpture for the Gyosei Art Trail in Milton Keynes, and a life-size pine needle figure for Grisedale Sculpture Forest. She is a Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors and has undertaken a residency in Scotland.

Since graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2003, Linda has been creating and showing sculptures in galleries and sculpture gardens across the UK. Her sculptures have been commissioned for public and private gardens, including a three metre by 5 metre sculpture for the Gyosei Art Trail in Milton Keynes, and a life-size pine needle figure for Grisedale Sculpture Forest. She is a Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors and has undertaken a residency in Scotland.

Linda's inspiration is taken from the human figure, mythology, nature and science (particularly quantum physics). She works with found natural materials and metals (mostly wire) and sees her entire art practice as a kind of drawing. Sculpting a ‘form’ in plaster or clay, Linda then works with lengths of wire to create lines which are placed with utmost care to describe the subject as much as the shape does.

Capturing the energy of her intense art practice in the final sculptures, her ephemeral three-dimensional drawings appear fragile but are actually surprisingly robust.