BIO
Linda D’Agostino is an artist from Wangaratta in Victoria’s North East. She enjoys experimenting with a variety of mediums and techniques including ink and pen, acrylics, water colour, and collage.
Linda is one of the 12 resident artists of Art Gallery on Ovens which is a community gallery supporting local artists while offering a contemporary art experience. The gallery is located in the heart of Wangaratta, a regional city in North East Victoria on the edge of Victoria's High Country.
Linda enjoys entering and supporting local art shows and has in the past been the Co-Ordinator of the
St Bernard’s Primary school Art and Photography Show for 4 years, between 2016 and 2019.
Linda enjoys challenging herself by painting & drawing a variety of subjects that she has been inspired by at the time. Often painting or drawing landscapes but also illustration style art works. Whimsical and naïve themes are mostly what appears.
Recently Linda held a ladies art class with 11 other women encouraging and sharing her knowledge of the mediums she loves to work with.
Linda has also been commissioned to paint new paintings for clients wanting something in her style, portraits of family homes, new born wall art and special family pieces for the home.
Awards:
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2023 King Valley Art Show Printmaking award 1st Prize for 'Elsie'
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2022 King Valley Art Show Friends of the Art Show Award for Printmaking 'Alone'
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2022 St Augustine's Primary School Jenny Toole Memorial Award for 'Listen to the Wind'
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2019 St Bernard's Primary School 9th Annual Art and Photography exhibition. For the category ‘Other medium’ for her piece ‘Prince of the forest 2’
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2019 King Valley Art Show, Highly commended for her piece “Prince of the Forrest 2’
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2018 King Valley Art Show, Eminence Wines ‘Water colour/ Gouache to $750’ award for her piece ‘Dusty Hills
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2016 St Augustine’s Primary School 19th Annual Art Exhibition & Sale Acquisitive Major award for ‘ Hills, Huts and Vines’
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2015 King Valley Art Show, Brown Brothers ‘most Innovative ‘award for her piece ‘Roaming free’
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2021,2019,2015, 2014 and 2012 St Bernard’s Primary school Art Show viewer’s choice.
Exhibitions
November, 2015: Wangaratta Tourist Information Centre. Solo
2017-2019: Bright Autumn Exhibition
2013-2019: King Valley Art Show and Exhibition
2012-2019: St Bernard’s Primary school Art & Photography exhibition
2016-2018: Wangaratta Rotary Jazz festival exhibition
2016-2019: St Augustine’s Primary School Art Exhibition and Sale
2020 - Hills, Huts and Vines Exhibition with fellow Artist Melissa Johns
2021 - A Simple Life solo exhibition
2021 - Landscapes and Imagination with fellow artist Melissa Johns
2022 - Whimsical & Textured with fellow artist Melissa Johns
Artist In Residence
2017: Appin Park Primary School, teaching water colour basics to the Grade 5/6 students over a period of 4 weeks.
Art Classes
2017: Weekly art classes with children aged between 7 and 12, teaching them all sorts of art and craft.
2018: 8 weeks.Held a ladies art class with 11 other women encouraging and sharing her knowledge of the mediums she loves to work with.