Linda can be reached directly at: eoheavens@comcast.net.

A quote to Linda in a letter from her former-husband Douglass Graham:

"Undersigned is really pleased to hear about your growing repute. Now a prayer: may your genius translate into some tangible support from the global village which undoubtedly benefits from your stellar presence."

Dear longtime friend and well recognized Cape Cod and New York artist Haynes Ownby (passed on) said of Linda's work (with a Texas accent) "It's guud … it's really guud."

Another dear friend and lovely lovely person June Gordon said to Linda, "Nothing daunts you … Keep on the trajectory."

Leading Humanity to new levels of awareness is the powerful dynamic that inspires Linda Ohlson Graham's photography and writing.

She feels an intimate connection to the cosmos … because she spent thousands of miles with the night sky in view …

Sailing in the wind rooted her more firmly in her intention to be a catalyst to WORLD PEACE .



In the Provincetown Banner - March 19, 1998:

She describes her work in photography as photo-journalism,
capturing people and places.

When sailing, she took with her very little film but says her approach to each of her shots was very spontaneous. One of the photos in the show is of three people --- the Captain, a young Haitian, and a model all dressed in white. Graham remembers the day. "We were all in the cockpit … and they posed for me … and I took one photo."

Her experience of visiting other countries less fortunate than the United States has served to enrich her artistic eye and taught her that it is the simple things in life that create true contentment.

After five years of sailing, Ohlson Graham returned to the Cape for a year and a half, then continued her travels on land, eventually settling in Colorado. From 1984-96 she was Co-Director and Trustee of the J.M.W.Turner Museum in Denver. Turner, a master painter of light, is renowned for his atmospheric sunrises that vaporize form and dissolve the physical into magical timeless images.

"It was a public museum and also my home."

While Linda was Co-Director she and Douglass, her former husband and founder of The Turner Museum, started a classical concert series in their museum/home … with symphony and chamber orchestra musicians. They created a buffet for intermissions which received an award from a local Denver paper 'Best place to eat while viewing art'. The museum subsequently was chosen by Atlantic Monthly, 'One of the 99 finest museums in America'.

Ohlson Graham maintains that she loves the mountains, but was still drawn, as so many artists are, to Cape Cod. "I love the light here and the people … I always felt that Cape Cod was home.

I feel a connection to the ocean … it has an energy that gives me peace … it flows over our whole planet and connects all of us, like one family."

"I am excited about my recent shows because I've been able to put pieces of art together that portray what I have been writing. " This writing conveys "comforting profound thoughts about bringing peace to people … and Humanity's evolvement into a quieter, more peaceful age."

EARTH OCEAN HEAVENS

"is my book in progress which includes my photographs, poetry, and one liners about the consciousness on our planet lifting and Heaven not being some other place, some other time, but right here in the midst of us."

Provincetown Magazine said, on 10/01/98:

Shortly after Linda, along with her daughter Isis, returned to Provincetown to live, they popped in one evening at the Coffeehouse at the Mews and Linda got up to read from her spiritual journal. There was a depth of reflection there that belied a woman who had lived long enough to come in touch with the realities that matter. Some time later, the community got to discover the photography of a woman who had traveled extensively and worked hard to capture the inner life of people in Third World countries."

From the Provincetown Advocate of November 25, 1999:

In an unusual departure from most standard photography, Graham combines many of her photographs with original writings or poetry.

Graham said the focus of her work is to bring to people the experience of lifting their spirits. She said when she and her daughter arrived on the Cape in the fall of 1996, a hurricane had been predicted. Approaching the Cape Cod Canal, they saw dark clouds above a blue sky and in the mist above the clouds, a rainbow.

To Graham, the rainbow was an omen of good things. Within a week, she had a little house and a job.

From Who's Who listings:

GRAHAM, LINDA OHLSON, nurse assistant/care giver, artist; b. Worcester, Mass., Dec 16, 1947; d. Henry William Russell and Rose Marie (Magnan) Ohlson; m. Douglass John Merton Graham, Feb. 14, 1984; 1 child, Isis Marina . Freelance photographer, beginning in 1973; Co-Director & Trustee-The Turner Museum, Denver, 1984-96.

See Exhibits/Awards

Member National League of American Pen Women, Arts & Letters - International Women's Writing Guild - Women Contemporary Artists - Women Creating - Jr. Symphony Guild, Denver, late 80's and early 90's - Unity Ch. - Salt Wind Poets - Serendipity of Women Poets - Gulf Gate Poets. Avocations: sailing, bicycling.

From Provincetown Arts 2000 magazine:

Among the most frequent guests on WOMR's Poet's Corner, she shares in soft, dulcet tones, her thoughts on life, the Earth, and the Universe. "The path can be arduous and labyrinthic," Graham recites from her Journal Immediately Following a Near-death Experience: "Though we must find refuge from a materialistic, vacuous world." Graham has been recording stream of consciousness thoughts and aphorisms since -minor- brain surgery in 1993.

"I believe art is truly inspired and that inspiration comes from a higher plane." Inspiration has also come from the painter J.M.W. Turner. Graham lived in (1984-1993) and co-directed (1984 to 1996) the Turner Museum in Denver. "Living in the midst of all that art, floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall, was like living in Heaven."

Grahams fascination with the elements grew over the five years she spent sailing with time in the Caribbean. "I traveled nearly 15,000 miles -- at an average of five knots."

She learned how to meditate and chant while in Haiti. During her first meditation she recalls a "visual of the heavens inside my mind, as if I were traveling in space." This revelation altered Grahams perception of what it means to travel. "It made me realize that all the open space that I had ever longed for was available to me when I quieted my thoughts. The space within me was as great, if not greater than all the outer space."

Graham also believes that meditation can open up her mind to receive subtle life enhancing guidance. "I really think Humanity can REALize ways to solve our worlds problems by quieting our minds for a while and listening."

My Goal:
"I'm striving to create images that touch people very deeply within, that might give them a still point or elicit a feeling they've never felt before."