Lindley Briggs received her B.A. from Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut in 1967. She attended the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts for graduate work in sculpture, from 1967 through 1969. While there she was awarded full scholarship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine. Over the past 26 years, she has had numerous shows featuring her wooden fantasy sculptures, "painted drawings", collages, and prints. Her work has been featured in national publications - YANKEE MAGAZINE, FINE WOODWORKING, THE NEW YORK TIMES, and ART BUSINESS NEWS. Her fantasy themes are dreamlike, playful, colorful, and clearly reflect her life - long fascination with natural forms (shells, branches, rocks and minerals) as well as Greek and Roman mythology. She often depicts imaginary creatures that are winged, feathered, or finned. She refers to her themes as "capricious visual episodes".

She has been collaborating with her husband Jeff for the past 30 years. In 1973, to support themselves, after discovering that it was next to impossible to pay the bills creating purely "Fine Art", she and Jeff started a wood sculpture business. For 16 years they produced over 6000 larger-than-life wooden butterflies, flies, dragonflies, moths, peacocks, and wooden flowers that were sold to shops, galleries, and collectors throughout the country. Next they branched out into creating one-of-a-kind sculptural prototypes and designs that were produced and marketed by other companies. Many of their designs were produced in China. They collaborated on colossal props for the visual merchandising market - 6' Chinese Ginger jars, vases, and plates for Bloomingdales, 9 1/2 Art Nouveau Ladies for Bonwitt Teller, a 10' mountain for The Rockport Shoe Company, to mention a few. Lindley also worked as a freelance colorist for a wallpaper design company, The PM Design Group in Salem, NH as well as the Fabricon Carousel Company in New York, NY. Over the past 10 years, Lindley has created designs for giftbags, mugs, wallpaper borders, photo albums and sculptural picture frames. Work she has designed is marketed nationally as well as in the local Marshalls and Home Depot.