Linda Lee Howe comes alive while painting, writing poetry and prose, teaching art to children and adults, dancing, storytelling and enjoying nature. She loves bringing art making and appreciation into the audience, classroom, home, sanctuary and wilderness. She uses a specialty called Touch Drawing, a safe, simple, mono-print process designed to foster the intuition and personal expression. It can also be used for visual journaling, self -awareness, meditation, prayer, and to assist in various forms of recovery and healing.

She also has an ongoing interest in the work of Marshall Rosenberg PhD and his Compassionate Communication ( Google:  NVC),  as well as Chinese Meridian based  Energy Psychology, (google: EFT  or emofree.com/, TFT and Tatlife.com). She has some training in Play Therapy and taught Native American Cosmologies in the wilderness of Vermont, guiding teen girls in wilderness skills and arts. She has also worked with elder populations in the area of Soul Care in Assisted Living settings and nursing homes.

More recently she has painted a Medicine Wheel Mural with teens at the Montclair Museum summer Arts program 2007, which is traveling around to chapels and libraries. She is currently on the faculty at the Yard School of Art at the Montclair Museum, NJ and has exhibited some of her Touch Drawings there.

 “My passion is using art to teach and awaken the creative energies in others, for the empowerment, mystery, beauty, wonder and joy of it all! Using the hands to Touch Draw allows the participant to experience their core creative sensations more directly.”

She began as an animal lover and nature artist as a child, then attended Connecticut College and studied in: Rome, Italy; Lesley University; Tufts University; and the Art Institute of Boston. She has illustrated educational software, published poetry and fiction, and will be attending the Vermont Studio Center Residency for Painting and Writing during September 2008. Her murals are in schools, libraries, museums, and nature centers.

                  Linda and her son                                              Linda and her daughter

She has two awesome children, a son Justin who became a designer for Puma and daughter, Erica, a senior in College in NC who is majoring in Sustainable Agriculture and wants to managing local organic farms.

Linda still draws inspiration from nature and her love of horses, and sees herself some kind Expressive Arts Sacred Activist. She loves deep ecology, music, singing in choirs, and using the enchantment of story from world cultures to build bridges to understanding.  

She does workshops and performances and is a Creativity Coach and educator can be reached at : Howe3@optonline.net

DVD, video and art portfolios, references available upon request. 

To view early Touch Drawing: http://www.touchdrawing.com/Newsletter/InTouch7-p2.html