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Joe's Bright Thoughts
Joe Linder: Communications Consultant from nine to five, by night a young artist in a 56-year-old body. A lover of poetry, exercise, and just recently suprised by art.
His introduction to fresh air, profound thoughts, and fragile flowers came from his mother Elaine Irene Terrio Linder and her beloved parents Joseph Andrew and Mae Amelia Terrio whose love of life and poetry runs in his veins.
He was taken by painting in May of 1998 when he tried giving advice to his wife of 31 years as she attempted her first watercolor of the El Capitan ocean park where they were camped. After silently receiving several bits of expertise, she drew from the ubiquitous handbag a watercolor paint set and said, "Show me!". For three hours they neither spoke nor moved from their paintings, not even for the usual necessary human creature breaks.
From then on Joe expanded his hobby of photographing landscape and flowers to include attempts at splashing the bright colors and shapes on paper and canvas. Remembering his high school classes in mechanical and architectural drawing (never before put to use) and the study halls spent drawing 1955 Chevys, Cadillacs, Buicks and Edsels — he sketched three Golden California poppies. He thought it so difficult to paint a flower even once, much less twice, that he decided to take the leap and make it permanent on canvas …in case it was a keeper.
So, off he goes, still counselling his wife. Both of them remembering palm trees, sunshine and deserted beaches from their newlywed years, more than a decade in the Caribbean. Both now splashing variations of California's morning shoreline colors on paper and canvas. You may come upon these two snowbirds, from Minneapolis and Philadelphia, their big white Ford Econoline camper pointed oceanward, playing the "Golden Hour" game as the sun, like an errant golf ball plays itself into the pastel California sea.
"Painting is good for me; I like it." — Joe Linder
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