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We have been successfully creating and selling high quality fine art and ceramic works for more than twenty years. We will continue to offer only our finest products for sale to the public and all transactions are guaranteed. Be assured that you will be treated in the same manner on this site as the people who have come to visit us for so many years at our actual home/studio in California! .... But there's more to us than that ....

 

Artist Linda Jean Thille    Linda Jean Thille

        Linda Jean was born in Orange, California and spent her early years in Santa Ana. She spent most of her time reading voraciously, drawing paper dolls and their clothes, and sewing couturier clothes for her other dolls. If she didn't become a nun (a product of her strict Catholic upbringing), she thought she might opt for fashion designing.

When she was in her early teens, she moved with her family to Denver. The family eventually moved back to California, but Linda remained in the Denver area working as a seamstress in an exclusive local fashion boutique. She eventually moved to Park City, Utah, where she quickly found work again as a seamstress; skiing at every opportunity and enjoying a very relaxed lifestyle.

After a few years of this carefree life, Linda returned to California settling in Ventura County. She began selling her custom-made men's and women's shirts, quite successfully, in local shops and boutiques and at select craft shows in the area. She also started taking a few adult education classes, where she rediscovered her love and talent for art. She moved on to Moorpark College. While studying there, she developed a passion for printmaking which kept her at Moorpark long after she had received her Associate of Arts degree.

The seed had been sown though, and Linda knew that she needed to discover more avenues that would allow her to express herself artistically. She enrolled at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, which proved to be the most rewarding personal and artistic experience of her life. She received her B. A., and her serious art career soon blossomed.

A few years later found her on the Long Beach peninsula in Seaview, Washington, living on the beach and dividing her time between working as a barrista and painting. It was there that she met Richard, and it was Richard who introduced her to computers as well as singing. Learning how to work with graphic design software on the computer became an invaluable tool and eventually led her to professional work as a graphic designer. It wasn't very long after watching Richard work on the potter's wheel and hand building dragons on the kitchen table that her art expressions soon began to appear on his work. Their collaborative efforts have produced some very distinctive pieces. With Richard's encouragement and experience, she also discovered that she had a good singing voice. After months of intensive practice they began to perform locally and since then have worked professionally as a duo, billing themselves as "Blackstone and Thille". They have co-written a number of original songs which they plan to have recorded at some future point in time.

Linda and Richard currently reside in the Sierra Nevada foothills of northern California along with their precious indoor family cats, Missy and Tut!

 
 
   

       

 

Artist Richard Thille

Richard Thille     

        Richard was born and raised in the Boston area. After high school he served in the U.S. Army. He strongly urges all young men and women to follow in the footsteps of smart politicians by avoiding military service like these well known people. He thinks it would be wonderful if a war was declared by greedy politicians and absolutely nobody showed up! He strongly recommends getting an education in reality. Start by reading the complete article about the American War Hero Major General Smedley Butler. Since learning his own military lessons Richard has gone on to be employed in a variety of interesting occupations. He has worked as a heavy equipment operator, welder, painter, payroll/expeditor, cashier, waiter, dishwasher, carpenter, home handyman, freight handler, salesman, danger tree faller, brick and rock mason and as a licensed water and waste water management specialist. He has worked as a public school substitute teacher. He has served as a Scoutmaster. At different times he has managed a 300 seat fine dining restaurant, two hotels, a lakeside summer resort, a large mobile home estate and a high volume retail furniture store. He has worked, most recently, as maintenance foreman for a well known horse breeding ranch in northern California. He has worn out more than a few pairs of footwear ....

For many years he traveled the country as a singer/guitarist; working out of Chicago. He has written and recorded regional and national radio and television commercials as well as performed on many regional television and radio shows as a singer-guitarist and as a guest host.

He has personally owned an eclectic seaside eatery, a 70's era disco and an arts and crafts hobby and pottery shop. He is a certified pottery instructor. He has also worked professionally as a vocal and guitar coach.

Check out the Ceramics page and our Music page if you would like to know more about his work.