Linda Luise Brown is a painter, writer and teacher, with over twenty-five years experience as a professional artist. Her list of national and regional exhibitions is extensive, with work in collections across the nation, including Bank of America, the Federal Reserve Bank, and IBM. In 1984 she was honored with a Fellowship at the internationally renowned MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire.

Over the last two decades, Brown has taught drawing, design, art history and art criticism in the Dallas Community College system, the University of Oklahoma, Central Piedmont Community College, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Winthrop University in South Carolina.

In March 2006, Brown completed an 18-month Affiliate Artist-in-residence at the McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC. This residency allowed her to paint several large-scale canvases as well as a variety of work in other sizes.

Greatly influenced by the work of post-war European painters such as Matta and Gorky who explored the evocative language of color, Brown has a fascination with the exploration of the subconscious and the subliminal. Her work seeks to make such concepts visible, to make them real on the canvas.

In her current Charlotte studio, Brown paints in an abstract and painterly manner, using color as a motivating force. At times bold, at times subtle, Brown composes her non-representational work by juxtaposing fields of color, shapes and textures. Brown allows the natural properties of oil painting to build slowly in layers of oil glazes and transparencies. Keeping the chroma as fresh and pure as possible, Brown lets chance permeate the work as she seeks a balance between order and serendipity. By reworking and layering, sometimes wet-on-wet, Brown creates a final painterly surface that often features a field of subtle variations, animated by calligraphic marks.

As a writer, Brown has written art criticism for local, regional and national art magazines for many years, and has co-authored Design First: Design-based Urban Planning for Communities, with her husband, architect David Walters, (published in 2004 by The Architectural Press in Oxford, England.)

Brown lives and works in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she partners her husband in Gemini Studio, a small independent consultancy that bridges art, design and larger issues of town planning.