Linda Biggs is an American painter, working with watercolors. Her fantasy art blends gothic aesthetics with rainbow motifs in the lowbrow art style.
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Biggs is of mixed ancestry;[1] her grandmother was a Cherokee Native American. January 27, 1962 and grew up in Towson, Maryland where she attended Towson High School. In 1988, Linda and her family built a white cedar log house in the woodlands of northern Maryland.
She began her career in corporate commercial printing, and became vice-president of an advertising agency in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1999, she quit to begin a new life as a full time fantasy artist, launching the website Fairie Forest Watercolors to market her work.[2]
She is self-employed as a professional artist, entrepreneur, and eco-friendly business owner since 1999. Her lithographs are printed on recycled paper with soy ink and shipped in recycled packaging.[3]
Biggs's work centers around her own experiences in life, presenting her stories through characterizations of Native Americans, mermaids, fairies, sirens, dragons, tramps, and her personal creation of "Little faerie Freaks", in the underground comix-influenced lowbrow art style. She regularly displays her works at International FaerieCon,[4] Spoutwood Fairie Festival[5] and Sugarloaf Craft festivals.[6]
Biggs is a participating artist in the books, The Art of Faery,[7] The World of Faery,[8] and Her Rainbow World.[9]
Finding that her work was sought after by temporary tattoo makers, she began production of flash kit tattoo stencils.[1]
Linda made numerous appearances on WJZ-TV, starting in 2005, in interviews with Marty Bass and Don Scott.[1] In their 'Coffee With' Dec 1, 2010 interview, she compared her depictions of fairies, from their beginnings, "about 10 years ago", to her work at the time. "...They were a whole different world of fairies...they were sweet, and just pretty. Now I've taken them to where they mean something"[1]
Selected watercolor paintings by Linda Biggs by year