My Resume

Linnette attended Manchester Metropolitan University from 1978 to 1981 where she received a degree in Fine Art Painting.

Selected Exhibitions & Demonstrations

Solo show in the Bishopsgate Institute, City of London, October 1995
Mixed show in Paris, November 1996
Mixed show in the Crypt Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London March 1997\
Mixed show, United Society of Artists, Westminster Gallery, London, June 1997
Mixed show, Bucks Art Week Southern Area Exhibition, Guildhall, High Wycombe, June 1997
Bucks Art Week South Area open Studio June 1997
Shared show (with Gareth Bell) in the Bishopsgate Institute, City of London, October 1997
Mixed show in the British Workhouse Gallery, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.,October to December 1997
Joined Buckinghamshire Art Society 2000
Two framing demonstrations given for members of Buckinghamshire Art Society 2001 & 2002
Started teaching painting & drawing courses for Adult Learning 2001
Teaching painting & drawing; oil painting and creative framing for Buckinghamshire Adult learning

Started teaching picture framing for DIYframing in 2004
Started exhibiting with Obsidian Gallery in 2004
Numerous private home exhibitions in and around London and Southern England-ongoing.

Linnette's paintings are in around 200 private collections in England, Germany, U.S.A., Singapore, Ireland and France.

A. Linnette Bell BA(hons)

Born 1959 in Christchurch, Dorset into a family of artists and printers.
Her father is portrait artist Gareth Bell.

One year Foundation Art course at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art.
In addition, she attended life drawing classes given by the late Sam Rabin (famous for his paintings of boxing and wrestling men).
Sam Rabin instilled in his students the need for serious study of form, movement and space as a foundation for painting and sculpture.
His lineage through Charles Despiau to Auguste Rodin is much in evidence, seen in the sculptural quality of his paintings.

Linnette is also drawn to classical sculpture and has on occasions made head and shoulder portraits cast in bronze.