Chelsea Artist Captures the Heart of the Gatineau Region

Linda Wright is a Chelsea, Quebec artist known for her images of figures in motion, cyclists and skiers in full stride, and children running and hiding. As the artist's family grows, Wright has returned to landscape imagery of the Gatineau Hills, the farms and skies, rivers and ancient trees.

"Wright works intuitively and thoughtfully. While her paintings are representational, she interprets freely. Fascinated by light, she uses colours in opposition to express agitation/energy in her evocations of childhood. Today, with her landscapes, she is employing a new understanding of form and colour as she explores the play of light over these hills, farms and riverbeds. She bears witness to 150 years of history in a landscape that is slipping away from us. Something indefinable is being lost. In so doing, she takes us back to the Garden, to that Edenic world that belongs to each of us – with its family trees, open spaces and overarching, light-filled sky. "

- Catherine Joyce, "The Low Down to Hull and Back News", 2005.