LINDA RORER artist
LINDA RORER artist
Left: Deciding to shake my work up, I completed an artist in residence award in France this year.
Right: Florence Art Academy
with Tony Bennett. Italy.
Our paintings
had been published in
“Savannah Sketchbook”
during my time in graduate
school.









Studios: Hilton Head Island,
South Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia US
Favorite mediums:
Oils, drawing, mixed media.
Favorite Subjects:
Southern culture, wildlife, figure, landscape, still life.
favorite reading:
Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, artist monographs.
favorite vacation spots:
Africa, Paris, Galapagos, American Southwest
Personal Motto:
Fortuna, favit, fortibus.
Music I love to Paint to
1.Classical and Opera
2.Blues and Rock
3.French Gypsy
Who am I? My paintings reflect life as both a southerner and inveterate explorer of other cultures since age five. It is these experiences in other cultures that leads me to both comment on them and reflect upon my own. I live on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina and midtown Atlanta, Georgia.
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Master of Fine Arts, Painting and Bachelors of Art
Ecole Parsons, New School for Social Research: Paris, France
University Witswatersrand Technikon: Johannesburg, South Africa
Savannah College of Art and Design: Savannah, Georgia
Longwood University: Farmville, Virginia
Artist in Residence Awards: CAMAC France; SCAD LaCoste, France; Spring Island, South Carolina
Additional: Florence Academy (Italy), Scottsdale Artists’ School Scholarship, International Center Photography (NYC) Scholarship
*Resume available