Barnicott Has Done More Than 50 Pittsburgh-Area Paintings Monroeville Times Express, March 11, 2010 by Jonathan Weaver Pittsburgh “Painter of Memories” Linda Barnicott has seen her fair share of the city and has boxes of photographs, many of which she has transformed into paintings that hang on family members’ and friends’ walls, to prove it. Photos from different places, months and angles all have found their way to her brush. Linda, 51, of Monroeville, began sketching portraits of teachers in second grade and moved onto others from there. Though classmates knew her as only the shy, quiet girl, Linda drew…

Linda Barnicott Capturing Moments and Making Memories Art Calendar Magazine, March, 2008 Edition by Kim Hall Several years ago, my grandmother, who lives just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I grew up, sent me a newspaper clipping about a local artist who was making a name for herself by creating charming pastel chalk portraits of iconic locales throughout the city. What struck me about the work was that nearly every piece jogged a special memory for me. It wasn’t just the places the artist based her images on. It was the feelings she was able to capture about those places.…

Cancer Society Card Portrays Recent Tradition This Year’s Holiday Greeting Features Skaters at PPG Place Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, September 13, 2003 George Aspiotes Grant Street got its first taste of the holiday season Friday as officials from the American Cancer Society joined with local artist Linda Barnicott to unveil the organizations 2003 greeting card. The card titled “Skating Together at PPG Place,” shows a wintertime scene of people ice skating in PPG Plaza, Downtown. It is the sixth piece that Barnicott has painted for the society’s holiday fund-raiser ” I just feel so blessed, and this is a way for me…

Capturing Pittsburgh Philadelphia Native Makes Name for Herself Painting ‘Burg Things Pittsburgh Business Times, July 18, 2003 Andrea Zrimsak Few artists capture the nostalgic beauty of Pittsburgh as well as Linda Barnicott. This Philadelphia native and Green Tree resident touches people’s hearts and memories with her famous Pittsburgh scenes including “Game Day at Pitt Stadium,” “Holiday Season on Grant Street,” “The Grandview of Pittsburgh” and “The Glory of Heinz Chapel,” the first in her new “Autumn in Oakland” series. Her first painting, “Meet Me Under the Kaufmann’s Clock,” has become so popular she recently completed two more original paintings of…

Her Artworks Help Others Reminisce Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 30, 2002 Virginia Peden, freelance writer Linda Barnicott of Green Tree, long admired for her Pittsburgh landmark paintings, has pleased Pitt alumni and fans with her latest, “Game Day at Pitt Stadium,” the first of a new series titled “Autumn in Oakland”.She usually has a story to tell about her pastel renditions, and so it goes with her stadium drawing. She thought right after is was announced Pitt Stadium would be razed that there would be a lot of pictures of Three Rivers Stadium, but none of Pitt Stadium. Andrea Paganie of…

“The Phantom of Lost Kennywood” Latest in Series by Linda Barnicott Green Tree Times , July, 2001 by Sarah Zablotsky The beige carpet in Linda Barnicott’s Green Tree studio is streaked with the colors of her pastel collection. An easel holding an unfinished work sits in the corner under a portrait of her father. But it is Barnicott’s vivid scenes of Pittsburgh and Kennywood hanging on the wall that immediately attract the visitor’s attention. “I like doing a painting where people get lost in it. They can look at it, walk away, and then come back and look at it…

Pittsburgh City Council Proclamation Passed in Council, May 23, 2000 Sponsored by Councilman Alan Hertzberg WHEREAS, artist Linda Barnicott has been greatly embraced by the art community and general public of Pittsburgh for the many nostalgic heartwarming scenes she captures; and WHEREAS, since 1975 she has enjoyed a career as a portrait artist, and since 1989 she has produced limited-edition prints and is currently working in a studio at her home in Greentree Borough; and WHEREAS, in 1996 she was selected to be the official artist of the 1996 Pittsburgh Three Rivers Regatta, producing a painting titled “Ya Gotta Regatta”;…

Artist Captures Spirit of “The Steel City” Observer Reporter, May 23, 1999 by Lori Wilkerson A snowy, twilight evening lit by the warmth of streetlights and shoppers gazing in shop windows graces the front of “A Holiday Tradition,” one of the most popular sets of Christmas cards ever produced for the American Cancer Society. Artist Linda Barnicott captures the charm and wonder of the historic Pittsburgh landmark in rich pastels, the tree soaring over the shoppers and Santa Claus. Originally a portraitist, Barnicott was approached in 1989 to do a Pittsburgh street scene that included one of the old trolley…

Route 6 Artisan Trail Draws Artist to Corry The Corry Journal , June, 2011 by Stephen Sears There’s a certain time of evening at Kennywood Park, just when the lights come on, that the sky turns dusky blue and the clouds shimmer with hues stolen from the sun. The same sky has been over Kennywood since its opening in 1898, although with the ground-level park activities, not many people take time to glance upward. Linda Barnicott did. And while the sky is definitely not the focal point, it helps create the mood for “The Magical Entrance of Kennywood,” the latest…