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Australian artist Linda Buller has been working and living in Bali for the last six years. With its disproportionate number of artists Bali is a vortex of creative energy which encourages people to recognize a little of themselves and their talents.
Linda is one of the few Australian female artists that has painted and exhibited consistently throughout her life. She has been painting since the age of 13.
Beginning study at the Anik Silvers Studio at 14 years old. She continued her training at the Bendigo Institute of Technology studying fine arts for three years. During the late seventies and the eighties, Linda was an active member of the Fitzroy (Melbourne) Arts scene as both a performance poet and visual artist participating in group exhibitions and a solo exhibition at Rhumbella's Gallery, Brunswick St, Fitzroy.
The City of Preston commissioned Linda Buller to paint the controversial Peace Mural within the Preston market place in 1986. Reluctant to come to Bali at first, Buller found herself joyfully trapped by the island's magic when she got here.
Compelled to return, she fought to fulfil her dream for fourteen years, gathering even stronger inspiration from her native Australia, painted on a Balinese palimpsest of her first vision of the island, always beckoning, always in her mind. She currently paints in the hills of Ubud, immersed in the magic and the mysticism of her surroundings. The Balinese belief that the mind rises to truth through that which is material, the basis for most of their life and art, is mesmerizing to Linda who is able to explore some of the mysterious depths of her own soul through the spirituality of Bali.
Much of her work expresses an intense delight in all that makes us human: laughter, magic, celebration and relationships with all Gods creatures and the planet. Her painting is a joyous celebration of life and energy. She coaxes colours working with both tones and texture in her chosen: acrylic and oils. She manipulates her medium with ease and expertise, blending folding mixing, contrasting brilliants and pastels melting like a perfume in a mist.
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