Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio: Linda Hoffman & Friends

Linda Hoffman has been part of the New England artist community since the early 1980s. Her work includes indoor and outdoor sculpture, public installations, and private commissions. Her public sculptures are installed in the Massachusetts towns of Groton, Harvard, Wellesley, Acton, and Stow; at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, at the Fuller Museum in Brockton, in Mt. Tremper, NY and Littleton, NH. Her artist books are in museums across the country. She explores themes of climate change, habitat loss, migration, isolation, and spiritual connection. Hoffman is a Zen Buddhist and leads morning meditation in her studio. Her memoir, The Artist and the Orchard was published 2021. Her new book, Overheard in the Orchard, 2025, is a series of conversations between a Golden Delicious tree and the orchardist. She is the curator of Old Frog Pond Farm’s annual outdoor sculpture exhibit opening on September, 7, 2025 where she will exhibit The Ox-Herding Series — a Zen teaching, in bronze sculptures and stones installed along a forest path.

Ariel Matisse is a multidisciplinary artist, whose work is deeply influenced by her early life surrounded by artists. She has a foundation in traditional Chinese painting and Western techniques. Using sumi ink and watercolor, her work explores flowers and birds with a focus on movement, balance, and the quiet beauty of the natural world. Her sculptural work features expressive wire figures and trees, extending this same sensitivity to line and form.

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