Artist Statement:

This compulsion for art is something in me since childhood, before I even knew a word for it. In my room dwelt a world of expression in cutouts and colors—a dreamy child's vivid life. The creative spark. I see, feel, and respond artistically to an experience, place, or someone I visibly see in life, or something emerging from the life of a canvas.

Art is connection... to God, others, myself, wondrous creation, the mystery of life. The Art has me captive in a dance with colors, shapes, motion, light, shadows. Every canvas begins to beat with its own heart. I stand back to see the life and rhythm of the paint. And the story each picture tells.

I sign my paintings "Fidelis," as a prayer to be faithful to God the Creator. I am after a true expression which will be a gift to others, and will take you to amazing places... Welcome to my known and unknown worlds.

- Fidelis the Painter

Education:

A dedicated oil painter, Linda Ledet has attended classes and workshops at Springhill College in Mobile, Alabama and the University of South Alabama. She has also studied under master artists including Wolf Kahn, Kevin MacPherson, Carolyn Anderson, John Cosby, Dan Gerhartz, Robert Johnson, Kim English, Tom Browning and Ken Backhaus.

Memberships:

Oil Painters of America

Art Institute of Chicago

Metropolitan Museum of Art

National Museum of Women in the Arts