Linda Marcille

Originally from Gaylordsville, Connecticut, Linda Eaton Marcille has been active in art since the time she was very young. After graduating from New Milford High School, she studied Photography through the New York Institute of Photography while she worked with cancer patients in a hospice program through a local VNA. In the early 1980s, she moved to Hawaii, where she apprenticed in photography and did freelance photography and portrait work. Upon returning to Connecticut Linda managed a photo supply and processing store while showing her photography in galleries and art shows. Linda married her husband, Don, in 1991 and moved to Vermont in 1993, where she and her husband lived a self-sufficient life on their 25-acre homestead on the Canadian border. During this time, Linda began making handmade paper and doing mono-prints and lino-prints, which she sold at shows and galleries. She also created a comic strip for the Green Mountain Trading Post, wrote articles, and published her photographs in homesteading and farming magazines. The Marcille's sold their farm and moved to Corinth, Vermont in 2000. It was then that Linda began to explore silk painting.

Linda's paintings on silk are bright, whimsical vignettes of everyday life. They instill a joyful, childlike response in the viewer, and are meant to provoke happy, healing emotions. She creates her work using steam set French dyes (Dupont from Dharma), water-based resists, and anti-diffusants (Jacquard no-flow) on silk fabric. Linda's work can bee seen in galleries throughout Vermont and is often showcased in Vermont publications. Her work has even appeared on WCAX channel 3 news. Limited edition signed giclee prints are also available in select galleries or by contacting Linda directly.

If you are interested in having Linda do a custom painting of your house, barn, or farm, or you would like to carry her work in your gallery, you may contact Linda directly through her website: www.crowhousestudio.com