Born in Modesto, California, Linda Jones Ewing began dreaming of being an artist early on. It wasn't until she attended University of Redlands, that she understood this passion was to be a lifelong journey.

After teaching for four years in Corona, California, she spent the following 17 years at home raising her two children. "It wasn't as though art was out of my life during those years. I was constantly experimenting with a variety of media, testing ideas, and struggling to find new means by which to express myself and my environment." In the late 1980s, she discovered the computer as a burgeoning tool in the art world. "Creating a totally believable, photorealistic environment is a captivating vehicle. I am able to place whomever I want, wherever I want. It is extremely seductive." In the late 1990s, Ewing had the opportunity to travel on the Amazon River. Though never having drawn with colored pencils, she was enticed by the ease and accessibility of the medium.

After having lived in southern California for 35 years, Ewing and her husband, James, relocated to northern California, settling in her hometown of Modesto. "I see my childhood and my heritage from a different vantage point after having lived away for such a long period. I appreciate what the Valley, foothills, and Sierra Nevada mountains have to offer."

Creating mosaics is an on-going creative medium for Ewing. She is continually searching for new surfaces on which to mosaic, and old, discarded wooden ironing boards have become a favorite. "When I initially saw a stack of ironing boards leaning up against a wall in an architectural salvage business, I immediately thought of St. Francis of Assisi, his halo was a perfect fit for the tapered end." Linda has made several of these, and they now hang in friends' and families' yards.

Having enrolled in a class at the local community college, Ewing is working with watercolors and finds the medium to be very satisfying. "I like the "toolness" of working with brushes and paints. Watercolors have their own personalities, having sediments and characteristics that cause them to flow onto paper in often unexpected ways."