LINDA NEWMAN BOUGHTON

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Linda Newman Boughton is a Fine Artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Her recent works are vibrant portraits of Angelinos in oil on canvas. Her background is diverse, and makes its way to the present via rich artistic experiences and unique opportunities.

Linda grew up in an artistic and theatrical family in Tampa, Florida. Drawing and painting always felt effortless and fun for her. Acting and designing in theatre also made up much of her early years. Her first choice in higher education was at Florida State University where she was a theatre major and had an art minor. At the University drawing skills were emphasized, and with a love of drawing people, she found herself in a fashion illustration class, loving every minute of it. Within a year of taking that class, she taught a summer fashion illustration course at Florida State University, and soon made her move to New York City where she attended The prestigious Fashion Institute of Technology, graduating Cum Laude, with a degree in fashion illustration.

She worked in the fashion industry for the next several years, illustrating, designing accessories and shooting freelance photography. Her love of acting and design soon propelled her to seek out Hollywood and the creative oppourtunitys of working in the movie industry.

Within in a year Linda was working as a lead scenic artist painting sets and murals for feature films. On a feature called: Wes Craven’s New Nightmare- Nightmare on Elm Street VII, there was a need for a Warhol styled triptych and she knew she could paint it- even though she hadn’t painted a canvas in almost 10 years. The film ended up needing many paintings and she painted every one. Each was a different style, and she learned something new about herself in the process. She could paint any style and she had a sharp eye for reproduction painting. She went on to create artwork for movies and television, painting whatever was asked of her in whatever style was needed, and was learning to really see as an artist sees, and gaining confidence in herself as a painter along the way. Her work has been seen in such films as “Fight Club” and “Déjà vu” And Television series including “Will and Grace” among others.

Living in Los Angeles since 1991, she has painted murals in public spaces and private homes, including those of Joan and Melissa Rivers. She recently has been focusing on her own personal work, an ambitious group of paintings for a 2009 exhibit at The James Gray Gallery at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, Ca.

Her new paintings truly come from within. They are self-realized and self-taught deeply penetrating portraits of women and men who live in Los Angeles.

She thanks her husband, Drew, for giving her the time and space to make her first group of personal paintings.

Los Angeles 2008

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EXHIBITS:

James Gray Gallery at Bergamot Station,
  Santa Monica, CA, 2009
Gallery 800, Los Angeles, CA, 2009
Art Salon, Washington DC, 2009
MJ Higgins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2008
The Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
  Group Show - Art Auction X, 2005

The Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
  Group Show - Art Auction IX, 2003


ART WORK FOR MOVIES:

Eagle Eye
Déjà vu
Domino
Starsky and Hutch
Skeleton Key
The Crow- City of Angels
Fight Club
Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas
Austin Powers- The Spy who Shagged Me
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare- Nightmare on Elm Street VII
One Fine Day


TELEVISON:

Desperate Housewives
Will and Grace
Access Hollywood and misc. pilots.


MURALS:

Arizona Grand Resort, Phoenix, AZ
The Arizona Biltmore Hotel, Phoenix, AZ
Many private residents in the Los Angeles area
My murals have been featured in magazines such as: Architectural Digest, Child Magazine and Palm Springs Life.


PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:

Several paintings in the Resnik Collection.

 

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Joan Rivers:
"Linda is wonderful. She made my grandson's room an absolute fantasy. Her work is magical. I think she's the best."

Melissa Rivers:
"I love what Linda has created throughout my home. Her unique vision and talent transcends beyond the imagination. She is truly one of a kind."

Eric McCormack (star of Will & Grace) and his wife Janet:
"Linda made our baby's room unbelievable. After painting an amazing sky on the ceiling, she recreated, large scale, pages from our favorite kids' books on the walls. The paintings manage to be uncannily accurate and strikingly original at the same time, clearly the result of someone who loves her work. The only problem is, how do we take the room with us when it comes time to sell?! Thanks again, darlin'. People freak out when they see it."

Edgar Pablos, Film Director:
"I enjoyed seeing your paintings at the gallery. I love your work so much. I think your portraits are very cinematic. You use light and color on your subject to create a mood that reflects the dimensions of humanity and, dare I say it, the divine in us all. You can see it in us and you recreate it without the filters of perception... and for that -- thank you, sweetheart. BRAVO! "

Tedd Webb, Radio Personality:
"Good God girl what talent. You are awesome !!!"

Marisa Seaton, Patriot, Loud-mouth and Comedian:
"Oh my GOD!!!!  Linda is amazing!  She's like...I don't even have the words! I'd rip her s*** off the internet and frame it! She is better than Thomas Kincaid!"

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