Linda Kessler is an American artist living and working in Patmos. She is an abstract and figurative painter, and documentary and fine art photographer. Kessler prefers to work with color in her paintings using non-traditional materials with unconventional methods to create her highly textured abstract paintings. The process of constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing numerous times by vigorously scraping, drilling, and gouging, facilitates the breaking down of multiple layers, destroying and revealing a final organized chaos.

As a self-taught photographer Kessler prefers to follow the classical manner of traditional photographers with a modern approach toward her black & white images. It is her unwavering curiosity to discover the ‘nitty-gritty’ of daily, ordinary life, which is the ‘driving force’ toward her work whether it is in her home environment or her travels. 

Kessler is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, from the U.S., and other prestigious awards for her paintings and photographs. Kessler’s work is widely exhibited and owned by many international collectors.

As a New Yorker, Kessler is a passionate traveler and lived in various countries including México, Brazil, Italy, France and Spain. Several years ago, she visited Patmos, based on a friend’s recommendation, for a month’s holiday.  During that short time in Patmos she decided to her make Patmos and Greece her home. Kessler is enormously grateful to the Patmion community for welcoming her.