Linda Stalker

"Colors Apoppying"---- Watercolor--$100  plus shipping and 6% tax

"Pansies"--Oil--$100  plus shipping and 6% tax

Linda Stalker is a Parke County native who spent 34 years teaching junior high and high school.  She taught English, speech, journalism, and was a media specialist.  She now does public relations work for PVETI and promotes technical education programs in Parke and Vermillion counties.

She enjoyed drawing cartoons as a child, but she didn't start taking painting classes until the 1970's.  Connie McClure was her mentor, and she enjoyed taking lessons from Joe Trover, Rob O'Dell, Louise Hansen, Joe Fettingis, and Laura Mason.

She joined the Covered Bridge Art Association in the early 1970's.  She and Connie painted in front of the Mansfield Mill during Covered Bridge Festival for a time and had their own shop at Bellmore next to the Country Store for several years.

Although she began with palette knife painting with oils, she now prefers painting watercolors, especially flowers.  She has won awards at the Little Italy Festival, the Vigo and Parke County fairs, and at the Spring Art Show at the Covered Bridge Art Gallery.