Linda Cheek has made a career of landscape painting since 1990 when she gave up her job as an illustrator for Lockheed and moved to the Marshall, NC, near Asheville. She has a BS degree in Fine Art from the Ringling School is Sarasota, FL. She has also studied with Ken Auster, John Budicin, Bob Rohm, Kenn Backhaus, Doug Dawson, Margaret Dyer and more.

Cheek is well known in the Asheville, NC area as a serious plein air painter and more than once been referred to as "a painters painter" because of her heavy use of paint and painterly brush strokes. Cheek is one of the founding members of the Western North Carolina Plein Air Painters. Her work can be found at a number of galleries in the Southeastern US, including: 16 Patton in Asheville, NC, The Design Gallery in Burnsville, NC, Willow Wisp Farm Studios in Fairview, NC, Friedmans's in Savannah, GA, Ken Farmers Auction House in Virginia, Skinner's in Boston, MA, and she has a permanent painting at the Salmagundi Club in New York; the oldest art club in America, with a reputation to go with it.