Email:lsbeach@comcast.net
Website: www.lindabeachstudio.com

For artist and teacher Linda Sargent Beach, it was a natural progression from using chalk as a teacher to her current focus of painting landscapes in soft pastel.  After twelve years as a K-8 art specialist, Linda has retired from public school teaching and is now an instructor with LARPD in drawing for children and adult painting for recreation in Livermore, CA.  She enjoys the challenge of teaching and the perspective that it brings to her own art.

A native of Cohasset, MA Linda studied at Wilson College, PA where she received her B. A. She later earned her M. S. in Art Education at Central Connecticut State University. Linda has studied a wide variety of media including black and white darkroom photography in locations such as Canyon Road in Santa Fe and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

Linda has further studied in workshops with several national painters as Sylvia Miller and Doug Dawson in watercolor and pastel on location and in the studio. She continues to seek new methods for her own expression in landscape. Her work often depicts a sense of distance and quiet contemplation using natural color. 

Linda Beach is an active board member of both the Livermore and Pleasanton Art Leagues and an associate member of the Pastel Society of the West Coast.  Her work has been exhibited in group and juried shows in the San Francisco Bay Area and at Wilson College.