Linda Legman Artist Statement 2022

Through my Vintage Map series I hope to create compelling images that the viewer connects with at a deep emotional level and with  intellectual curiosity. I am intensely interested in our human impact on the planet. This is why my emphasis is on endemic, threatened, and endangered California animals whose vulnerability is often unknown to many people.  This series also contains drawings of people and events about which many Californians have no knowledge. I draw on old family camping maps or historic USGS topographic maps that contain the habitat in which each animal, or historic person lives or once lived. 

I  hope my art inspires people to remember our shared responsibility to the careful stewardship of our beautiful planet and all its precious inhabitants.

Please visit my website: LindaLegman.com