Luke Orton Lindoe (8 March 1913 – 4 December 2000) was a Canadian potter, painter, sculptor, and businessman who did most of his work in Alberta, Canada.

He had many different jobs, from mineral prospecting, coal mining, and teaching art, to producing potting clay and manufacturing ceramic products such as ashtrays.

[1] For the first sixteen years of his life Lindoe and his mother wandered in western Canada and the United States.

He went to Toronto to study sculpture at the Ontario College of Art (OCA) while his funds lasted (1940–1941), and there became interested in ceramics.

[4] Lindoe married Vivian Lamont in 1940, a fellow student at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art.

In 1942 he gained a job as an assistant draftsman in Calgary with a subsidiary of Consolidated Mining and Smelting.

[1] In 1942 Lindoe found a job as a geological surveyor for Imperial Oil, and spent three years mapping the Whitemud Formation in Cypress Hills.

"[7] In 1945, Lindoe threw up his job and moved to Salmon Arm, British Columbia to paint full time.

[4] He returned to Calgary and was an instructor at the Alberta College of Art from 1947 to 1957, where he developed the ceramics department.

The studio opened in 1954, with a 40 cubic feet (1.1 m3) updraft kiln that Lindoe had built by hand.

Lindoe was hired as director of research and mining, an area where I-XL was struggling, and turned the operation around.

As a condition of employment Lindoe had a studio and then a gas kiln at the plant, where he developed his skills as a potter.

[11] Lindoe had been hired on the basis that he understood ceramics, but in fact he was a potter and his expertise was locating clay and its properties.

His later paintings became increasingly simplified and abstract, reduced to basic forms with subtly shading colors.

[3] Lindoe's ceramic work has been widely exhibited in North America, Europe and Japan.