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From a young age Linda was drawing birds and plants. Her two most treasured possessions growing up were a large tin of Derwent Artist pencils and a book on Australian birds. After leaving school, Linda studied at Bachelor of Natural Resources at the University of New England. Her honours project investigated small mammal mycophagy and fungal spore dispersal over an ecological gradient, with the work later published in Austral Ecology (Vernes and Dunn, Austral Ecology, Vol 34, Issue 1, Feb 2009).
Moving to the Hunter Valley, Linda worked in environmental consulting and mining. In 2010, she went to part-time work to pursue her passion and complete the Natural History Illustration (NHI) degree at the University of Newcastle.
Artworks celebrating the botanical diversity and wildlife of North Rothbury were the basis of Linda's major project at the end of the degree, which won her the Margaret Senior Wildlife Illustration Award in 2014.
Most recently, Linda's botanical illustration of the critically endangered North Rothbury Persoonia (Persoonia pauciflora) was published in the book 'Flora of the Hunter Region: Endemic Trees and Larger Shrubs' (CSIRO Publishing, 2019). A collection of botanical plates from the book, including Persoonia pauciflora, was part of a special exhibition at the Newcastle Museum.
located in: Hunter Valley, Australia
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website: www.lindalunnon.com
