Linda Larsen, Northern California abstract oil painter, developed her signature sense of color during decades hiking the Bay Area hills in order to paint their inspiring landscapes. After acquiring an art studio, and as her hiking excursions became more limited, she turned her love of color and line into creating abstract compositions in oil paint. She remains dedicated to this process today, currently pouring paint onto canvases, inviting the properties of the paint and gravity to work with her own energy. She has shown her work throughout California and has received recognition for both her landscapes and her abstracts. Satisfying a youthful impulse for adventure, Larsen received an art education during her travels in Canada from Vancouver and the northern reaches of British Columbia, to Halifax, Nova Scotia and Montreal, Quebec. Upon returning to California, she studied painting with Wally Hedricks, Chester Arnold and sensory awareness based drawing and color explorations with Connie Smith Siegel. Her favored muses during the years of landscape painting were Wolf Kahn and Emily Carr. Today she enjoys the art of Emily Mason, Helen Frankenthaler, Susan Frecon, Julie Mehretu, George Miyasaki, and many Color Field and contemporary abstract artists.