Artist Spotlight: Ash Holmes
Not everyone is lucky to be born into a family of artists…
Ashleigh Holmes, despite her young age, already has experienced an overwhelming interest for her work from collectors and galleries internationally.
She has in a very short time proved her talent in her home country with several sold-out shows and being finalists at the Combat Prize and Mosman Art Prize. Ashleigh has an admirable drive and the fact that she has been able to build up a successful art career at such a young age shows that this is only the beginning.
“Ever since I was young, I’ve been a hands-on learner, being able to physically create my vision is something that goes hand in hand with my personality. Taking a thought and turning into something you can view comes naturally! I act quite intuitively in my life when making decisions and I feel that is how the process of my work goes, too.”
Ashleigh Holmes is a fourth-generation artist based in the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia. She has been painting for as long as her hands could hold a brush. Holmes has developed her painting practice from a vocational pursuit into a full-fledged professional career.
An abstract, expressionistic painter, Holmes’ work is redolent of North America’s mid-century colour field painters. In contrast to the severe and obsessive formalism that defined that period, however, Holmes’ compositions are gentle, dreamy and inviting – speaking to the l aissez-faire cultural climate of northern Sydney’s beach-bound suburbs. Light-hearted yet graceful, Holmes’ paintings express a visual poetics of the feminine – composed with characteristically soft palettes of predominantly neutral tones. Holmes’ work exists in private collections in Australia, New Zealand, North America, Singapore, Dubai and Spain.
Ash has an upcoming show this August at the gallery she's represented by Studio Gallery, in Melbourne, Australia.
Learn more about Ash: ashleighholmes.com
Follow her on IG: @ashholmesart
Check out her new collection below: Recollection Echo
