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It's been quiet on the interview front at Shortcut, but here's a special treat: I've talked childhood friend Linda Heydegger into letting me interview her about her work as a painter and showcase some of her pieces in digital form on the site. Linda's been painting and drawing since i first met her at age 11 and she's done so with increasing success. Her last exhibition, a series of still lives, was a delightful amalgam of mundane objects set off by dazzling colours: these are household items glimpsed perhaps casually on kitchen tables across Europe, but rendered with fastidious detail and arranged sensually like objets d'art before the viewer. Each piece barely bigger than a large-sized envelope, the still lives evoke a series of postcards conveying multiple domestic worlds, each with its inherent cultural flavor. And yet these multiple, disparate words, nudged into careful composition and bathed in glistening colours, converge into fundamentally the same vision: an image of home.
Linda was born in Basel but raised between Arizona, Germany, Switzerland and now lives in France.
Read the interview or enter the gallery
Shortcut: You've been painting for years and have had several exhibitions. At what point did painting become more than a hobby for you?
Linda: The first time i experienced satisfaction in my own work was as a twelve year old, when I won a wonderful white ballet tutu in a drawing competition. Since then I have developed a certain ambition....By the way, even today i tend to approach art as a hobby rather than a profession. This lends my work a degree of lightness and an ostensibly independent streak. More than anything it's my work as an art teacher that pays the bills.
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