Linda S. Wingerter grew up in a family of artists: her great grandfather painted church murals in Russia, her grandfather was a puppeteer, her grandmother was a miniaturist, her father was a graphic artist, and her mother is a book designer.
Encouraged from the beginning by her creative family, Linda decided to become a children’s book artists at the age of four after seeing the work of illustrators such as Trina Schart Hyman. She became a published artist at 13 when Cricket Magazine printed her drawing of a paper dragon in their letter pages.
Linda studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and spent her junior year in Rome with the European Honors Program. In 1996 she graduated with a BFA in Illustration. Since then her paintings have been seen in financial magazines, computer software programs, science fiction novels and opera posters.
Her children’s books include One Grain of Sand, by Pete Seeger, and The Water Gift and the Pig of the Pig by Jacqueline Briggs Martin, and many illustrations for school textbooks, and magazines such as Weekly Reader. Her work has been honored with three SCBWI Magazine Merit Awards, the Lupine Award, and a Bulletin Blue Ribbon honor. She is also a regular contributer to Cricket Magazine.
Linda has been exhibiting since 1994 in places such as the Cenci Gallery (Rome), Woods-Gerry Gallery (Providence, RI), Art on the Mountain (Dover, VT), Huntington House Museum (Windsor, CT), the Eric Carle Museum (Amherst, MA) and the Society of Illustrators (NYC).Originals from her books have been displayed by the New York Public Library of Manhattan, and in the NYC Society of Illustrators’ Original Art children’s book show. Her paintings reside in private collections all over the world. In 2002 she was chosen by the state of Connecticut to create an ornament for the official Blue Room White House Christmas tree in Washington, DC.
Linda enjoys renovating her 90 year old house, making dolls, figure skating, and playing the musical saw. She is a performing member of Puppetsweat, a fire dancer, and a retired captain of the CT Roller Derby. Though raised on a horse farm in Maine and Vermont, she currently lives in West Haven, Connecticut with her fiance, two cats, and two dogs.
