Linda Luise Brown is a painter, writer and teacher with many years of experience as an broadly exhibited professional artist as well as a published writer in regional, national and international media.
Much of Ms. Brown's writing focuses on the visual arts.

Linda holds a B.F.A. in Painting from The University of Illinois; an M.A. in Humanities from the University of Texas at Dallas; and an M.F.A in Painting from the University of Oklahoma. Linda’s work hangs in public and corporate art collections across the nation, including Bank of America, the Federal Reserve, Commerzbank, Ally Bank, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and IBM.
Her presence in private collections is extensive.

She is a Fellow of the internationally renowned MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and was an Affiliate Artist-in-Residence at the McColl Center for Visual Art from 2004 to 2006, and again from 2013 to 2014. Also in 2013, Linda was an Artist-in-Residence at Arte Studio Ginestrelle, in Assisi, Italy, where she completed a series of collages addressing the juxtaposition of commercial religious kitsch with the high art of the early Renaissance as it is revealed in the town of Assisi, Umbria; in 2014, Linda was invited to return to Ginestrelle, accompanied by her husband, David Walters, where they completed interrelated studies of the hill towns and their surrounding landscape.

Linda Brown has a painting studio at C3Lab in Charlotte.
She is represented locally by Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art.