Linda Fantuzzo: A Kiawah Favorite

Linda Fantuzzo remembers her first encounter with Kiawah, visiting the Island with her longtime artistic colleague and friend, Manning Williams, back in 1973. “It was such a wild, wondrous place,” the New York native says. “The utter extravagance of the marsh as one
approaches the Island, that vast, pure landscape; it’s one of the reasons moved to the Lowcountry.” The classically trained Fantuzzo, whose commissioned work hangs in The Kiawah Island Club, studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and in Italy, and has been a mainstay of the Charleston art scene for the last three decades. Best known for her still-lifes and sensuously textured, luminous landscapes, she relishes the freedom and spontaneity of plein-air painting, and is especially drawn to the wide-open Kiawah vista.