Meet Linda
I felt it was time to re-write this section as so much has happened in the last few years! I hadn’t realised that I had been involved in egg art for over 40 years, but they say that time flies when you’re having fun. I’ve certainly had a lot of fun over the years, being self-taught and learning by trial and error, this has given me the motivation to help other people get to grips with egg art. As a trained primary school teacher, I recognise the importance of teaching the basic skills to give a good grounding to learning anything.
As a result, I have tried to pass on my skills to others, not only through teaching, but through providing written information in the form of books, instruction leaflets and magazines. I also ventured into the realms of making videos showing different techniques as well as full seminars. Being a bit of a perfectionist, the latter took a considerable length of time to do and I’ve not had the time to make any new ones for a little while, but I don’t give up hope of freeing up some time to do more in the future!
My business is mainly mail order, based in the United Kingdom, with a world wide customer base and a huge product range. I’m an advocate for trying ’non-conventional’ materials and methods in my egg art and I try to come up with some new ideas to showcase in my teaching and writing. As a result, you
may find some rather unusual items within the pages of my supplies catalogue.
Over the years, I’ve been fortunate to receive many prizes for my work, including Best in Show both in the U.K. and in the U.S.A. Following on from these successes, I started judging egg art internationally. TV appearances for someone who hates having their photo taken were a challenge, but I managed to get through several of those relatively unscathed! One prime time show did result in my getting some very funny looks during the following week as people were trying to work out where they had seen me before!
In the past few years I was asked to take on the role of Co-Founder of Egg Art International
- a new organisation that was started to promote egg art around the world in all its many styles with free membership and access to information and much more. Since then I have become even more involved in
judging, creating a program of assessment and generally continuing to do as much as possible to further egg art and help others to learn as much as possible.
As you look through the website, you will discover more ways in which Your egg art can be enhanced (check out our section on Egg Art International and their website). Many of you will know me through Facebook where I created a page to help
people with any queries about egg art. You’ll find links to all my Facebook pages and to the free to view YouTube videos that I’ve made under the Online Learning section.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have about egg art and I will do my very best to help answer them and, if I can’t, I’m certain to know someone who can! I feel very fortunate to have personally known some of the top egg artists around the world. Trips to shows around Europe
and the U.S.A. have allowed me to see so many different styles of work and meet such interesting people and if I ask for help, I know that it will be forthcoming from someone, somewhere in the world.
I look forward to hearing from you and being able to help you to increase your knowledge and skill levels so that egg art is something that will continue to be enjoyed by future generations.
Linda’s work has received many prizes over the years including Best in Show both in the U.K. and in the U.S.A. and is an experienced judge.
Her egg art designs have been published in various craft and specialist magazines and she now self-publishes books and magazines on the subject.
The predominantly mail order egg art supplies business has been established for some years and supplies egg artists around the world with quality materials to enhance their art form. Linda has a different approach to egg decorating.
An advocate of trying ‘non-conventional’ materials for the craft, she has developed some unusual concepts in her egg decorating work. As a result, the egg art supplies catalogue contains some exciting and innovative products, including over 150 instructional leaflets designed by Linda and an assortment of kits for all abilities and plenty of illustrations of finished egg art designs, in addition to the basic materials which are conventionally linked with egg art.
Linda is passionate about spreading the word about egg art and passing on the various techniques which are used. To that end, she is now producing instructional videos and has created a twenty-four hour helpline in the form of a Facebook group page to help artists with any questions they may have about any aspect of egg art.
Linda is now involved in the creation of a new international
organisation aimed at promoting egg art and involving egg artists from many disciplines and many countries.
Being almost entirely self-taught, Linda is well aware of the difficulties facing new egg artists when trying to work out how to do things without help available and the group fulfils this need with advice being offered from artists around the world. Check out our new Egg Art International Page
or the Website here.
Seminars are normally taught, time and circumstances permitting in our seminar room at our premises. We are also sometimes invited to teach at other events and information on any upcoming classes will be posted in our Dairy Dates section.’
As you look through the website, you will discover more ways in which Linda is able to help with advice to help you achieve your goals.
I look forward to meeting and helping you.