Background

Erica Lindberg Gourd is a resident of Stonington, CT  and a former NYC marketing professional.  She loves marketing, branding and making connections from problem to solution. She offers group and private classes in oils, watercolors, pastels and Photoshop.  She earned a Masters in Digital Imaging and Design from New York University in 2006. Before starting Lindberg Designs, Erica ran a branding and marketing company called Lindberg Marketing + Media whose mission was to monetize the art and images of famous children's characters, authors, illustrators, television shows, movies and cultural institutions.  Now, she shares with not famous individuals how to make those connections from art to products. 

In her prior career, she enjoyed marketing brands in the U.S. such as Jim Henson's Muppets,  Where’s Waldo, Arthur and Paddington Bear, Between the Lions and was formerly Vice President, Domestic and International Licensing for MTV Networks building the initial MTV, VH-1 and Nickelodeon product brands in the 1990’s.  More recently she has enjoyed consultancies at Carnegie Hall, Bryant Park,  Professor Garfield, Symphony Space and  Reading Rainbow.

Erica believes in supporting non-profits and has served on the Westerly Hospital Foundation Board, We Are Family Foundation, New England Science and Sailing Advisory Board and briefly at Stone Acres Farm on their Board. She is the Managing Trustee of The Eugene Atwood Fund an organization that provides educational grants and interest free loans to college and trade school bound New London County residents. 

Her real love is to capture emotion through color and design in a way that makes people feel good.

The Process

I love painting and I love teaching others to be comfortable with their own creative visions.

I love working with institutions to put together their brand mission's with manufacturers and retailers to earn royalty revenues.
   
Appreciating color and design in every medium, with both beginning students and experts is wonderful.

​Encouraging creative thinking, and visual sharing is my passion.

Recent Paintings

I have a love affair with light and the passage of time demonstrated through the cycle of human life and the natural world seasons 

Students' Portfolio - Selected Paintings
​2017-2019 works

Spike Lobdell - Waves - Sold 2017

Dodie Bump completes "Pre-Season" and Amanda Fowler puts the finishing touches on "Water Street".

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Olga Goff paints Watch Hill light and Marggie Slichter captures a Nantucket Cottage. Both are oil on Canvas.

Ruth Saunders, Amanda Fowler, Andrea K Greene, Andrea Rossi

Barbara Ginsberg, 2017

Jennie Stevenson, 2017

Heather Bessette, 2016

Laurie Johnstone, 2017

Laurie Johnstone

Laurie Johnstone, 2017

Deb Bigelow, left, meticulously painting the sea wall at the end of Wall Street, and Marybeth Bartholet, above, completing pink marsh for the June Art Show to benefit the Westerly Hospital Foundation. 

Summer painters - 2015

Dodie Bump paints "Cocoa" Oil on Canvas

We are very inspired in our classes by the work of Carol Marine.  Stacey copied Carol's landscape adding touches of her own. To See more of Carol Marine's work  go to: ​http://carolmarine.blogspot.com/  and, or to:   http://www.dailypaintworks.com/artists/carol-marine-1.

Erica Lindberg Gourd
​Solo and Group Shows

October 1995, Bronxville Women's Club, Bronxville, NY
March 2000. Farmington, CT 
August 2002, Stonington, CT
July 2003, Stonington, CT
March 2004, Bronxville Library, Bronxville, NY
July 2005, The Chapel, Watch Hill, RI
November 2015, Avondale Arts, Watch Hill, RI
March 2016, Stonington Harbor Yacht Club
June 2017 - Stonington, CT 06378
August 2017 - Avondale Arts, Watch Hill, RI 02891
July 2018 - Harbor House, Inn at Mystic, Mystic, CT 06355
​August 2018  Avondale Arts, Watch Hill, RI  02891
​December 2018 Harbor House, Mystic, CT 06355
June 2019 GO FISH, Mystic, CT 06355
August 2020 - NESS Art Show, Stonington, CT 06378

1995- 2020 Artwork Sold
“Little Red Boat” – 1995 - Watercolor 10x14
“Open House” – 2002 – Watercolor on paper
“Surf’s Up?” – 2002 – Oil on canvas
“Christmas Narcissus”-2002 – Watercolor on paper
“Stargazer Lilly – 2002 – Oil on canvas – 11x16
“Geisha Girls Lillies – 2002 – Oil on canvas – 11x16
“Impatiens Centerpiece” – 2002 – Oil on canvas
“Black Iris” – 2002 – Oil on canvas
“Tea Time” – 2002 – Oil on canvas
“Front Hall” – 2002 – Oil on canvas
“Fresh Picked Lillies” – 2002 – Oil on canvas
“Exploding Tulips” – 2002 – Oil on canvas
“Escape from Freedom” – 2002 – Oil on canvas
“Margot’s Cosmos” – 2002 – Oil on canvas
“Skipper’s Retreat” – 2002 – Oil on canvas
“Cosmos on Deckpost – 2002 – Oil on canvas – 11x14
“Sailing West” – 2003 – Oil on canvas
“Boy Throwing Rock” – 2003 – Oil on canvas
“Oranges for Breakfast” – 2003 – Oil on canvas
“Charlie” – 2003 – Digital mixed media and pastel
“Red Door on Water Street” – 2003 – Oil on canvas
“Eliza and Emma” – 2003 –  mixed media and pastel – 16x20
“Planter in Stairwell” – 2003 – Digital mixed media and pastel
“Planter on Terrace” – 2003 – Digital mixed media and pastel
“Willow Branches in Spring” – 2003 – Oil on canvas
“Tea Time” – 2003 – Oil on canvas
“Elizabeth and Elizabeth” - 2003 – Digital mixed media and pastel
“Emily” – 2003 – Digital mixed media and pastel
“Blue Canton and Rose Medallion” – 2003 – Digital mixed media and pastel
“Geranium and Morning Light” – 2003 – Oil on canvas
“Avery Porch” – 2003 – Watercolor and watercolor pencil – 9x12
“Swedish Man with a Flute” 2004 – Oil on canvas – 16x20
“Porch Daffodils” 2004 – Mixed Media and pastel – 16x20
“Stonington Harbor”  2004 – Pastel mixed media 5x14
“Nasturtium Window box”  2004 – Oil on canvas 16x20
“Daffodils and Apples” – 2004 – Oil on canvas 16x20
“Chinese Lamp”  2004 – Oil on canvas 18x24
“Narcissus on Dining Table”  2004 – Oil on canvas 30x36
“Sailing East”  2004 – Oil on canvas 22x28
“Park Bench in the Rain” –2004 – Oil on canvas – 20x24
“Avery Porch” #2 – 2004 – Oil on canvas – 9x12 
“Amaryllis” – 2004 – Oil on canvas – 18x24
“Before the Race"  2005 – Oil on canvas – 28x28
"Sunfish Sail"  2017 Oil on Canvas 12"x12"
"Flowers from Mom"  2017 - Oil on canvas 10x16
"Birds and the Bees" 2017 Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
"The Rowers"  2017 - Oil on Canvas 12x24
"MOO" - 2017 Oil on Canvas 16"x20"
"Coffee for Two - Ocean House" 2017 16" x 20"
"First Swim"  Oil on Canvas, 2018, 12" x 16"
"Coming Home" Oil on Canvas,  2018, 36" x 72"
"Daffodils for Mary," Acrylic on Canvas 2020,  "16 x 20"
"Marsh Memories for Trimmy" Oil on Canvas, 2020, 24"x24"
"Nasturtiums" Oil on Canvas, 2020 24"x24"

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​ERICA LINDBERG GOURD Artist Resume 
Email: erica@lindbergdesigns.com
OBJECTIVE:
Teach Art and Design to help students realize their own creativity.
​Inspire joy and fulfillment through mastery of composition in many art forms particularly painting and digital mixed media.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

2002-2004 Bronxville High School Bronxville, NY 
Substitute Art Teacher – Studio Art I, II III,IV and AP
Teach drawing, painting, collage and photoshop to high school students.
2004-2005 Bronxville Adult School Bronxville, NY
2013-2017 Stonington, CT and Avondale Arts, Watch Hill, RI
2018-2020  Stonington, CT
2021 Bronxville Adult School via Zoom

Digital Photography and Organization and Photoshop Teacher:

2005-2008 Individual Instruction. Bronxville, NY and Greenwhich, CT
Basics of Photoshop:

Colors and swatches, custom brushes and patterns and layers
Photo manipulation, hue saturation, filters, cropping and sizing
Creating self portraits, brochures, greeting cards and digital paintings

Web Design and Painting Teacher - Oil and Acrylics

June 2015 - December 2020, Stonington, CT
November 2015 -2018 Avondale Arts, Watch Hill, RI



​EDUCATION
1976-1980 Kenyon College - Gambier, OH
B.A., History Honors
2003-2006 New York University - New York, NY
M.S., Digital Imaging and Design


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