Painter Linda Carr Floral, Still Life, Illinois Landscapes, Portraits, Koi, Cattle, Seascapes, Animals- Fine Art Linda Carr - Biography Linda Carr was born and raised in East Peoria, two and a half hour drive south of Chicago, Illinois. Linda Carr's love of art is reflected in her work. Her finely detailed, lifelike oil paintings more closely resemble something created from a camera than with brush strokes on canvas. Linda was a volunteer art teacher assistant at the Sun Foundation and assisted accomplished sculptor Erik Blome, whose works that dot the nation include bronze portraits of professional basketball player Michael Jordon's father, James, and nine foot tall statue of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ms. Rosa Parks. Her interest in art started at age six when she became enthralled with her grandmotherfs charcoal wildlife sketches. Her first viewing of an art gallery was from spending summers at her grandmother's country home, viewing charcoal sketches of a shoreline c