Linda Johns
Photo by Jeff Parker (Lyghtesome Gallery). |
Known locally as "The Bird Lady" for her services in rescuing and caring
for birds and other wildlife, Linda Johns is a full-time artist and
writer. She lives in rural Nova Scotia drawing constant inspiration
from the birds and other creatures with whom she shares her life. Besides
writing, she executes acrylic paintings on canvas and paper, brush
and ink drawings, linocuts, wood engravings, clay sculpture, and carvings
in wood, stone and whalebone. She exhibits on a regular basis. Linda
shares her home with an ever-shifting population of birds and a human
male named Mack.
Linda won the 1994 Edna Staebler Award for creative non-fiction
and the 2006 Evelyn Richardson Prize for non-fiction.
Selected List of Publications 
Whalebone Odyssey: A Carver's Search. Published with Lyghtesome Gallery, 2009.
Shapes and Shadows: Pencil Drawings 1979-1981. Lyghtesome
Gallery, Antigonish, NS, 2007. Hand-bound, limited edition. http://www.lyghtesome.ns.ca/
Tall Tails: Drawings of Horses 1970-1974. Lyghtesome Gallery,
2007. Hand-bound,
limited edition. http://www.lyghtesome.ns.ca/
  Birds
of a Feather: Tales of a Wild Bird Haven. Goose Lane Editions,
2005. ISBN 0-86492-430-5.
Winner of the 2006 Evelyn
Richardson Prize for non-fiction.
Touchstone: Poems and Drawings.Handbound, limited
edition of 50 books on Japanese paper, signed by the author/artist.
Published by Lyghtesome Gallery, Antigonish, NS, 2004.
Wild & Woolly: Tails from a Woodland Studio. McClelland
& Stewart, 2000. ISBN 0-7710-4412-7.
Click here
for WFNS' description of this book.
  For
the Birds: Nature Notes from a Woodland Studio. McClelland & Stewart,
1999. ISBN 0-7710-4456-9.
Click here
for WFNS' description of this book.
Shortlisted for the 2000
Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction.
The Eyes of the Elders. Lyghtesome Gallery, 1995. ISBN
0-9699734-2-X.
In the Company of Birds. Nimbus Publishing, 1995. ISBN 1-55109-127-5.
  Sharing
a Robin's Life. Nimbus Publishing, 1993.
ISBN 1-55109-004-X. (hc)
ISBN 1-55109-055-4. (pb)
Winner of the Edna Staebler
Award for Creative Non-fiction.
The book was shortlisted
for the 1994 Evelyn Richardson Award for Non-Fiction.
"By turns funny, incredible,
strenuous, enlightening, and tragic."
- New
Brunswick Telegraph-Journal.
  Spiritus.
Hand-bound, limited edition. Self-published with Lyghtsome Gallery,
1992.
Touching Water, Touching Light. Hand-bound, limited edition.
Self-published with Lyghtesome Gallery, 1990.
You can send mail to Linda Johns
c/o Writers' Federation of Nova
Scotia or visit her website at: www.lyghtesome.ns.ca/
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