About Linda Rae

Linda Rae is an artist/intuitive/scientist.  In her art she works in drawing, mixed media paintings and photography.  When intending to know or transform something, Linda sets an intention, then creates intuitively.  Her years as an art psychotherapist trained her to mine the collective consciousness and to understand the meaning and symbology in art.   Her process of dialogue allows her to interact with her art work in an imaginative way.  Through this interaction Linda's awareness expands and she is able to know things about subjects she has never studied in any other way. 

Linda received a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art from Fort Hays State University in Kansas, and a Masters Degree in Art Therapy from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.   She was board certified by the American Art Therapy Association and worked for a number of years as an art therapist with children and adults, in psychiatric units of hospitals, residential treatment, and private practice.  She also designed and implemented a site-specific art therapy program for a correctional facility. 

For the last several years Linda has devoted herself to her own art work and studying how the creative process interacts with and effects consciousness.   Linda lives in rural northeast Kansas, with her husband, two horses, two dogs, and four cats.  She loves to ride horses, hike, bike, kayak, cook, and garden when she is not in the studio creating.

    Artist Statement   

"I have never been without art.  It has always been a part of me, my way of relating to the world, expressing myself, and learning about everything around me.  My art is simultaneously about expanding my awareness and celebrating all of life.  In the midst of the process, my consciousness is transformed in indescribable ways.  I leave the studio each day feeling like Alice in Wonderland--again and again, forever changed.    I see such beauty, such tremendous beauty, in a leaf, a person's hair, the glint in their eye, the way a cat curls its tail around itself when it sleeps.  Some things, like flowers, are obviously beautiful to most everyone.  But to me, the whole world, and everything in it is a tremendous gift of beauty.  Drawing helps me to really see the world for exactly what it is, rather than what I think it to be.  It trains my mind to slow down and my eye to see true form and relationships, phenomenally.  Painting is an opportunity to be playful with color, texture, and design elements, to work spontaneously, intuitively, and to follow each painting's lead.  Photography allows me to capture a fleeting moment, a brief encounter with the "ordinary", that through my artist's eye has become extraordinary.   Sometimes this experience is literally gone with the blink of an eye.  Photography also teaches me to consciously choose what I focus on.  I am very passionate about what can be known through the creative process.  By developing our creativity, we inherently connect to our creator and open up our consciousness.  My creative process has allowed me to open parts of myself that I did not know existed, and to expand into a greater beging than I ever dreamed was possible.  By learning from within myself I have earned my Ph. Me." —Linda Rae

                                                              --Linda Rae