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Linda Weber Kent was born and raised in Maryland on the outskirts of Washigton, D.C., she comes from a family that was highly influenced by the arts. Her grandfather was Second Leader/Assistant Director of the Marine Band and a member of "The Presidents Own" Marine Band from 1915-1951. Her father is a sculptor and a musician, her younger sister played the piano beautifully even as a very young girl. Linda had no interest in learning a musical instrument but her father recognized early on that she did have an interest in the visual arts so he saw to it that she frequented the museums of Washington, D.C. on a regular basis and began encouraging her to draw which she readily grasped.
Unlike the rest of the family, Linda was a free spirit who was more interested in being outdoors and hiking in the woods, she also had a great love for horses which has followed her throughout life, at age 28 horses became her first subject in oil painting.
Kent moved to Los Angeles in 1972 where she worked in Beverly Hills for the next five years as a professional make-up artist, the fascination of facial features and bone structure also became an inspiratation to her artwork. She continued to paint and sell her work during this time but soon realized that this was not the kind of lifestyle she wanted, so in 1977 she moved to Arizona. She soon landed a job working with horse racing as a Racing Official. Her painting did not take a back seat, people started commissioning her to paint and she continued in this direction for the next 19 years.
Linda married while living in Arizona and in 1996 moved with her husband and two young sons to St. George, Utah, closer to her husbands' Idaho/Utah roots. She decided to get as much formal instruction as she could and leave the commission work behind for a more personally motivated career. She took lessons from one of the old Cowboy Masters in Arizona, attended Scottsdale Artist School, took many college classes in drawing, painting, composition and countless hours of reading and watching films, and is now focusing on Western and Figure painting.
