Linda Brandt

Linda M. Brandt, Secretary & Co-founder

Email: info@artbreakers.orgPhone: 904.377.2431
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Linda Marie Brandt
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Linda presents a wide and variegated portfolio of both spiritual and secular paintings.Drawing since the age of four, Linda landed her first professional job illustrating political cartoons at the age of nineteen.With a background in both formal and personal training, Linda continues to illustrate a totally unique style of color and design.

Linda Brandt, a Wapakoneta High School graduate, may have a movie made of her life.Shown is page of her story about Henry the tulip. (Image provided)
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Wapakoneta artist Deb Henkener, a friend of Linda Brandt's since the early 1980s, described her as a talented artist who has had an inspiring career.
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"Linda is the kind of person who could do anything she set her mind to.She's a very strong person , she has to be , and her faith in God and family support are what keeps her going."After recovering from her surgery, Linda Brandt started a studio in St. Augustine.She and her husband, Jimmy, a culinary chef, also own a restaurant in Cedar Key called Frog's Landing. She also produces paintings with religious themes for the Marial Museum of Sacred Art in Paris, France and is now working on seven large pieces for the University of Florida Hospital.The first 5- by 8-foot painting, called "Body Grief," will be unveiled June 8 and signed by survivors of the Neurosurgery Unit. "When they look at my work, it's very unusual," Brandt said."I can't explain the phenomena, but they experience all kinds of feelings within themselves and are very touched by it.I want people to recognize that there's a spiritual intelligence that guides me in these paintings."A higher power also guides her in her volunteer efforts, Brandt said.Brandt recently founded Artbreakers: Artists for the Cause, a non-profit organization that provides assistance to cancer patients through its art sales.The organization held a show last month and is planning another one in May. In the midst of all her efforts, Brandt received an e-mail from a Tom Saunders, a psychologist and screenwriter who stumbled upon her Web site by coincidence after looking up another artist with a similar name.Saunders asked for permission to write a script about her life, and after giving it some thought, sheagreed. "The title of the script is ,Born Again and Again and Again,' " Brandt said.
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"As they were writing it," Brandt said, "I had to read the highway patrol reports, the autopsy reports, things my children had hidden from me."

Linda Brandt Secretary and Co-Founder Artbreakers