Shreveport artist Linda Moss, inspired by light and nature; exhibition opens in Leesville, Louisiana’s Gallery One Eleven

LEESVILLE, La. (KSLA) – A gallery in the west-central Louisiana city of Leesville is welcoming a talented Shreveport artist with open arms.

Linda Moss is a Natchitoches-born artist who moved back to Shreveport, Louisiana in 2008. Moss has always been an artist, some of her earliest memories were finger painting at her kitchen table.

“It was always my favorite thing. And then in second grade, I knew I wanted to be an artist,” says Moss.

She felt she was always created to be an artist. Moss always felt like she didn’t belong in the normal world and art was always her language. She has been an artist since she was very young.

“I feel like it chose me. I’m just not meant to be in a cube. I mean, you can, and you do things that you need to do, but,– I don’t feel like I’m that good at that kind of thing. You know I feel like it’s my gift and my… This is the easiest way to tell the stories that I have and the things that I encounter that I would like to get out into the world,” explains Moss. “I feel like it’s a language that you speak, and therefore I feel more comfortable speaking that language than the language of numbers or other things in the world.”

Moss is heavily influenced by nature in his work. She specializes in capturing light and how it reacts with nature. She mainly paints plants with beautiful light tones highlighting their shapes.

“I was also a gardener at some point in my life, and that comes back to the question. I’m a bit of a nerd, so I like all Latin names,” Moss explains her recent focus on plants. “The way the light captures something sometimes makes me stop the car and pick up the camera. ‘I have to capture this.’ Anything from the natural world, to me, is a message from things that are bigger than us. “

Moss is a mixed media artist who works primarily in acrylic paint with caulking additives on wooden canvases. But over the winter, she plans to get back into oil paints.

In the past, she used pieces of fabric in her art because it reminded her of her childhood, her mother was a seamstress, so fabrics were always around.

“My mom sewed when I was a kid, so there were always these scraps of fabric everywhere. And it just reminds me of childhood, it’s familiar. It’s familiar things to put into art. It’s inspiration because it’s part of my past,” he says Moss.

Now, she started looking at fabrics and replicating these patterns by painting them into her work.

She makes a full-time living creating art alongside her husband Ben Moss, who is also an artist. Both Ben and Linda Moss have very different styles, Ben’s art is very Graffiti and comic book style, while Linda’s work is more earthy and traditional. But communication is easier for them, despite artistic differences.

“His art and mine are very different, but we both understand the basic principles and speak the same language,” says Linda Moss. “You have a built-in critic and someone who just understands you.”

On October 19, artist Linda Moss’ exhibition featuring her art will have an opening reception at Gallery One Eleven, 111 South 3rd Street, in Leesville, Louisiana. The exhibition will feature recent artwork Moss has created over the past two years.

Reception starts at 6pm

Leesville is a small but creative hub in west central Louisiana that has supported and hosted numerous Shreveport and Arklatex artists. Additionally, the city has an art park featuring work by some local Shreveport artists, including Ben Moss, Linda’s husband and artist, and Uriah Oxford, who was previously interviewed on ArkLaTex Artistry.

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