About the artist
After their three daughters were grown and married, Emma Woodson Lineberger and her husband Alex (married 55 years before
his death in 1993) traveled extensively throughout the United States—no state was overlooked and many were visited numerous times. Although the
trips appeared to the family to be mainly recreational, it is clear now that Emma was using the experiences to add to a catalog of beautiful
pastoral images that she had been creating in her head all her life. Road trips with the family as the girls were growing up had been limited
primarily to short day trips in North Carolina to visit grandparents. But, if asked to reminisce, all three
girls will recall with a chuckle the hundreds of times their backseat daydreams, naps, book readings or sibling rivalries had been interrupted
by their mother’s outburst of “Look, girls! Just look at that magnificent view! Someday I’m going to paint that!” And, true to her
promise, years later as soon as she felt she had time to devote to her own dreams, she took paint brush in hand and began transferring her beautiful visions to canvas.
Over the last two decades she has won numerous awards for her paintings and her work now hangs in many private collections across the country. Her renderings are done in a realistic style with a soft pastel quality that adds to the tranquility inherent in the scene. She especially loves the rolling hills of peaceful pastures and the majestic serene vistas that she remembers from her summer home in the North Carolina mountains. She spends most of the year at her home in Winston-Salem, painting and still devoting herself to a horde of “lovely friends” and her three girls and their families—including eight grandchildren and ten great grandchildren.