Artist Statement
Linda Puiatti has been painting full time since her return to the US in 2000. Her studies at the Akademie voor Schoone Kunst in Deinze, Belgium launched her back into the world of fine arts and oil painting after a successful career as a graphic designer on Madison Avenue and around the world.
Puiatti paints atmospheric landscapes inspired by the many places where she has traveled and lived. Her favorite locales are the beaches and marshes of the Northeast, Hudson River Valley fields and mountains and the big sky flatlands and farms of Belgium, Netherlands and France where she lived for ten years. These paintings are born in a traditional realism that reaches into the contemporary art world, eliminating minutia in favor of a broad landscape impression. This impression with minimal detail allows the viewer to enter the painting with a familiarity of place, to revisit a scene remembered or imagined.
Puiatti’s work has been collected nationally and internationally by hundreds of private collectors. Her paintings were featured on the set of Madam Secretary and have appeared in a Family Circle Decorating feature. Her work has been the subject of interviews and articles in the Hudson Valley and beyond.
Biography
Linda Puiatti’s paintings hang in private and public collections throughout the US, Europe, Australia and Africa.
American studies: The Art Students League, New York, NY, The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, The Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock
European studies: Stedelijke Akademie voor Schoone Kunst (Academy of Fine Arts), Deinze, Belgium
Galleries: Oak & Oil Gallery in Katonah, NY, Mark Gruber Gallery in New Paltz, NY, NOA Gallery in Groton, Massachusetts, The Goode Gallery, Kent, Connecticut