One of Art on Main’s newest members, Linda Muir was born and raised in North Bay, Ontario where she attended Chippewa Secondary School. After school she worked as a clerk at Canadian Forces Base North Bay and was later employed at BDO Dunwoody and Transport Canada. She has been retired for 11 years. Today Linda is a wife, mother, grandmother, cancer survivor and photographer. Ironically, it was a bout of cancer that turned Linda’s life to photography. Her husband Dave bought her a digital camera as a distraction during her illness. Linda then brought the same determination to learning photography that she did to beating cancer. Once bitten by the shutter bug she was hooked.

Linda is entirely self-taught. Not content to simply snap a few photographs, she began to learn and discover the intricacies of Photo Shop which lead to learning the graphic tablet. Through trial and error and many frustrating hours Linda has developed her own unique style of digital painting – turning what was once a satisfying and therapeutic hobby into a career. Her favourite subjects are children at play and North Bay landmarks. Her photographs do more than just record an image or a moment. The rich textures and subtle tones give a sense of time suspended, of days gone by and special moments caught and saved forever.