Mosaic first caught Linda's attention while on vacation in Seattle in 1986. She walked into a gallery and on display was a "Falls" style dressing table fully adorned with broken dishes, including a broken Marilyn Monroe plate in the center and elegant porcelain figures as drawer pulls. She found herself completely taken by the work and the idea of creating something new out of common place materials such as dishes. The technical name for this type of mosaic is "picasiette," a folk art tradition with a long and rich history. Picasiette is a French word first associated with Raymond Isidore and La Maison Picassiette of Chartres, northern France, that loosely translates to "crazy plate stealer," but in modern context speaks more of the use of broken pottery. Linda uses almost exclusively the ceramic of broken dishes to adorn and reclaim discarded objects. Her signature is to maintain some semblance of dish by use of pattern, shape or recognizable parts - handles, spouts, rims and bottoms - in a revitalized form different from its original use. She embraces the challenge of creating a new, spectacular and meaningful work of art out of the obsolete and mundane.

For more information about Linda, please visit her website at www.lindamixyates.com