Linda Mackey Lang
Visual Artist
Linda Lang is a landscape and expedition artist who grew up north of Schomberg and currently resides outside Haliburton. Her painting expeditions have taken her across Canada (including the high Arctic), Antarctica, Siberia, Greenland, Iceland & more. “Being an artist is more than paintings—it’s who I am, what I do, the places I go, my dreams, the impact I have on others, and sharing my vision.”
Linda Mackey Lang
About the Artist
Linda Mackey Lang is an internationally acclaimed expedition and climate change artist whose paintings are based on the knowledge she gained from her Inuit friends, scientists and 17 expeditions to the Polar Regions. She first travelled to the Arctic in 2002 with her mentor Doris McCarthy. She has led expeditions and exhibited throughout Canada (including the Arctic), United States, and in Russia.
Lang is a former board member of the Society of Canadian Artists, an elected Signature Member of Artists for Conservation, former Art Liaison for International Polar Year, and founder of Polar Artists Group and the Arctic Quest 2006 project. She represented polar artists at the launch of International Polar Year in Paris, France in 2007, participated in the Circumpolar Artists Round Table discussions at the United Nations Office in Geneva, and in 2008 and 2009 she represented Canada at the Northern Lights Festival in the Russian Arctic. Linda has taught art workshops for the TDCSB, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Students on Ice Climate Change expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica, in Russia, and the United States.
Linda’s painting Follow Your Dreams was presented to Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor, the Hon. James Bartleman in 2006 by the TDCSB and several of her paintings are in the personal collection of The Right Honourable Mary Simon, former Governor General of Canada among others across Canada, the United States, and UK.
Artist Statement
With my 1930s paintbox (which was given to me by renowned artist Doris McCarthy when I was her studio assistant), I prefer to paint en plein air (on location) in oils on birch panel. I sketch in my sketchbook, write in my journal and take photographs of details for reference. Then, back in my studio I decide what story I want my painting to tell. I bring all of the experiences together with oil paint on canvas creating the final painting.
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