Linda Ganus on why she switched from portraits to painting the environments around figures

Linda Ganus didn’t just shift from painting people to painting places, she followed where the feeling was stronger. Over time, the environments around her figures began to carry more weight than the figures themselves, until they became the subject entirely. Her landscapes feel alive with memory, built through colour relationships that move like music—tension, harmony, pause. Working in slow, layered oils, she constructs skies and spaces that don’t describe a place so much as evoke what it felt