the Artist

Linda Kay Palmer resides in Palos Verdes, California. Her art is inspired by the natural beauty of the Palos Verdes area, as well as her extensive travels throughout the western United States. Light and shadow is always a major component of her art, capturing the emotion and color within each subject. Taking her long love of the detail in nature, Linda Palmer started her education in oil painting at a local art center and is an Associate Artist member of the California Art Club. Her art provides comfort and solace for the loss of her beloved daughter these many years now. Memories are realities as viewed by the mind's eye. Are your's the same as mine?

Inspiration

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are -- Ovid

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires -- Hedy Lamar

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time -- Thomas Merton

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures -- Henry Ward Beecher

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail -- Theodore Dreiser

Forgiveness

Forgiveness means letting go of the past -- Gerald MacDonald

Forgiveness is the final form of love -- Reinhold Niebuhr

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven -- Thomas Fuller

There is no love without forgivness, and there is no forgiveness without love -- Bryant H. McGill

One forgives to the degree that one loves -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hope

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me -- Emily Dickinson