Discover Delmarva Arts: Painter draws inspiration from nature

WORCESTER COUNTY, Md. – In a middle-of-no–where community, Linda Perry’s house sits.

The veteran artist grabs her inspiration from the desolate area, and from animals.

“I started painting rabbits and foxes and horses and things like that, so that’s where I am now, that’s what I’m doing now,” Linda said. “I just absolutely love it. I can’t tell you how much I love it.”

At the start of her career, what caught Linda’s eyes were humans.

“I wanted to paint, and I wanted to paint people, that was my big thing that I wanted to do; I was determined to paint humans,” Linda said.

But overtime her artistic style has evolved into realism paintings of quick foxes, playing dogs and majestic horses. Of course, Linda has hit some bumps in the road throughout her journey, but she said consistency is what shaped her into the artist she is today.

“If you practice enough and you keep doing it, you will get better at it,” Linda said. “You do get better at it, and you can do it, and it’s like, maybe in the past I thought I couldn’t do it, I thought I wasn’t good enough to do it, and I think I am– I think I can do it.”

She added that art can open parts of you that you never knew you had.

“It’s very healing, it’s good for you, I think, and you can connect with something inside,” Linda said.