Linda Anderson (born September 3, 1941)[1] is an American, self-taught folk artist who began painting when she was 40 years old.

After her father died while she was in her teens, the family was forced to move to "a house with a dirt floor and no indoor plumbing"; she quit school and worked as a maid and a nurse's aide to help.

She was married and working as a nurse when she took up painting in 1980, at age 40, during a time she was caring for her sick daughter.

Atlanta collector Carolyn Caswell, impressed with the work, introduced Anderson to Judith Alexander, a gallery owner and folk art expert.

[1][2] In addition to her paintings, she creates with oil crayons on fine-grain sandpaper representations of the auditory-visual synaesthesia she experiences during severe migraine attacks.