Linda Tracey Brandon is known for her imaginative figurative paintings as well as landscape, still life and portraiture.

Brandon has won several major awards, including First Place at the 2014 Butler Midyear Exhibition and was a Semifinalist at the 2015 Outwin Boocheever Competition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. The artist has also won awards and recognition from the Art Renewal Center and the Portrait Society of America. She was recently featured in a 7-artist show at the Customs House Museum in Clarksville, Tennessee.

Brandon regularly teaches portrait drawing and painting at Scottsdale Artists’ School in Scottsdale, Arizona. A native of Michigan, she holds degrees from the University of Michigan and New York University Law School.

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