Linda Hardy from NTCC was the Mount Pleasant Rotary Club special guest and program Tuesday. Linda is best known for her stunning paintings done in colored pencil. In 2007 she won the CIPY Award and the EXPY Award - the two highest awards given by the Colored Pencil Society of America.
Linda has the distiction of being the only colored pencil artist to have won both awards. In 2012 she won her second EXPY Award, making her the only colored pencil artist awarded the EXPY twice.
She is also the only colored pencil artist to have won the International Artists Magazine's Grand Prize Award which she received in 2005. In the December/January 2013 issue of the International Artist Magazine she placed Third in the Favorite Subjects Competition.
Her work has been shown in more than 60 national and international exhibitions and she's won an equal number of awards and honors, many being Best of Show.
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