Happy Link-o de Mayo!!

5/5/2024

Happy Birthday (in Memorium)
to my good friend, mentor, partner,
best-critic and sometime frienamie:

Laurence 'Link' Linkus
born May 5, 1952 passed-away in 2018.

“Link's untimely passing has left many beautiful murals and paintings unfinished...
and unpainted.
It has been a pleasure and an honor
to have worked with such a talented painter and artist. Link taught me, inspired me, and challenged me.
Link kept the bar very high...
well stocked, and very well decorated!
As these images (below and here) show,
Link was an incredibly talented, prolific and dedicated artist. He was versatile and worked in many genre, and in many media.
He leaves behind a powerful body of work that I hope to (continue) documenting and share with you all as best I can.
While Link was pretty good at documenting his work with a camera, he never got around to transferring his photos into pixels for this digital media, and consequently never had a website!
As I scan what we have of Link's portfolio I will add his artwork to this slideshow until I have it all better organized and we have a better way of sharing Link's impressive and masterful artwork.
In respectful and loving memory”
-Roberto Quintana de Foster, WFA

“I miss you Bro!” - your pal ‘sQuint’

3 Comments

Scott Maxwell

5/6/2024 07:20:56 pm

He was certainly more versatile than I would've expected. Thanks for sharing some of his work!

Rufus Snoddy link

9/17/2024 09:28:48 am

Very nice tribute to our buddy Link, Roberto. Like you, I really miss that guy. I miss his voice, his laugh, and his wonderful talented work. I have fond memories of the three of us, out on great projects in obscure places. Gone much too soon. Thank you for this.
Rufus

Roberto A. Quintana

9/19/2024 06:35:45 pm

Hey Rufus!-
It's been way too long! I was in Chicago last October and tried to hook-up with you! Sorry I missed you. Send me your current contact info and we'll get caught up.
A lot of great adventures from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas! Century City to South Central, Bel-Air to Venice, The Brewery, and Santa Barbara! I learned a lot from you guys! I'ld love to do a post on you! Send me some good links that I can plagiarize!! Hope all is well.-RQ

...to Roberto's Blog!

‘Duit-On-Mon
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  Roberto has been pestering the ‘Marketing’ staff here at Art and Soul for some time now to get together with ‘Research and Development’ to come up with a fun way for him to share all the great work out there of all the many other talented muralists and artists he's been "influenced by" over the years. ‘Sales’ was totally against the idea! ("How could that possibly improve the bottom-line?!"). ‘Marketing’ remains split, as usual ("We need more data"). ‘R&D’ thought it might be a fun way to "show off a little", and to showcase all those great ideas they keep finding out there on the internet. ‘HR’ said it might be a good way to keep 'The Crew' distracted ("Since they are all so bored since Covid hit, and Roberto is spending more and more time in his studio working on all those silly little easel paintings").
'The Crew' said: ’'Sure, We've got nothing else going on …but only if we get to share stuff about technique, materials, and equipment." ‘Receivables’ said: "It obviously won’t make more work for us, so why not!". 'Legal' said: "No Way! You are NOT going to reveal where you steal all your ideas from!" (Although Roberto values their legal advice, He rarely listen’s to their hysterics anyway). So... here we are! Welcome!

‘Duit-On-Mon-Dai-Luna-Prime’
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   I expect to start becoming a little more savvy with all this social media stuff, but for now ‘Bookmark’ my website and check back every once in a while. I hope you will find it interesting. Don’t be too persnickety over my whimsical spelling and creative punctuations either, my Editorial Department is not what it used to be… I am seriously understaffed these days."
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-Roberto Quintana, WFA

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