Photo Credit: Jeff Parker (Lyghtesome Gallery)
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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.
- 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.
- Tall Tails: Drawings of Horses 1970-1974. Lyghtesome Gallery, 2007. Hand-bound, limited edition.
- 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.
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- 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.
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- For the Birds: Nature Notes from a Woodland Studio. McClelland & Stewart, 1999. ISBN 0-7710-4456-9.
- Shortlisted for the 2000 Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction.
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- 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.
