Paintings and Drawings

Linda Degnan Cobos is a painter and mixed media artist living in Friday
Harbor, Washington with her husband and son. Her work has been shown at Gallery Mezzotint, Island Museum of Art of Friday Harbor, and at the Gallery at Art Students League on 57th & 7th Avenue in Manhattan. Linda has studied 2007 - 2013 during month long sabbaticals at the Art Students League in New York with George Cannata, Marybeth McKenzie, Nikki Orbach, Charles Hinman, and Mariano Del Rosario among other nationally recognized artists, and is  member of the League
She considers it her great good fortune to have traveled on art trips with her friend Friday Harbor painter Annie Howell Adams to France, Holland, Belgium, and most recently, NYC .

Linda’s worked many years developing textures, combining experience with pigmented clay, lime, and gypsum plasters, fresco & scraffito work, beeswax and other natural materials with her work in oil, pen, pencil, conte, and acrylics.
Working outdoors, or in the studio, she's painted and drawn in northern France, Paris and New York, also in abstract, and painted and drawn the figure from life. Her work is recognized by her strong sense of color, confident line quality, simple, expressive brush strokes, and use of texture.

A founding member of Slow Food Land and Sea convivium, she has a longtime interest in food & water issues and education, and in preserving local food traditions. These interests are reflected in her fresco work, including a large pigmented plaster mural with the subject of sustainable fishing practices, and a mural with the subject of Nafta and GMO's great role in the destruction of Mexico's white corn economy, and Mexican people's fight to preserve their economy and genetic heritage of their corn. Linda's currently working on a series of people and their work, with emphasis on island farmers and fair labor and food practices.

She currently supports herself with work as a drywall taper and plasterer, as a deckhand commercial fishing in the Puget Sound and Bristol Bay, AK, and milked Jersey cows and picked tomatoes for two San Juan Island farmers. (Read about the benefits of fresh, raw milk here.)