Linda was born in Berea,Ohio and lived in the Midwest and East Coast until she was 24 years old.  She was teaching in a small Quaker school in Virginia Beach when she was spotted hooking a rug of her own design by a local bank president. He offered her a job designing wall hangings for his banks, which she declined,  instead deciding  to pursue a degree in art.  While attending Virginia Commonwealth University she explored jewelry, weaving, glass blowing, and ceramics. Ceramics stole her heart as did using porcelain clay as a canvas for her ideas. After obtaining her BFA she headed West to fulfill a dream of living in the mountains with nature around her. 

Linda settled in Bend in 1976.  After several starts and stops, to build houses and workin grocery stores, Linda started applying for and getting in Art Craft Fairs. This led to a big life lesson. She had given up her day job and decided to become a self-supporting potter.  Until the day her rabbit took one bite out of each bowl she had thrown that day, Linda had been a perfectionist. Instead of throwing out the bowls for not being perfect, she cut into the lip of each bowl to hide the bite and created her asymmetrical distinctive Bunny Bowls.

Her lesson was that sometimes one needs to set aside what she wanted( the perfect bowl) and see what she has (a truly unique bowl) and go with it. Through this lesson she was able to start carving through vases and alter edges to make her distinctive style.

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