Linda Raynolds grew up in a Foreign Service family and was exposed to art of many cultures. She studied sculpture with Sidney Simon at the Art Students League of New York and is founder of Stone Soup Studios, an artists’ facility in Cody, Wyoming. She is a signature member of the Society of Animal Artists and Artists for Conservation. She has two sculptures in the collection of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West and has artwork in many private collections. Linda was the winner of the Premier Platinum Award at the Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale in 2011.