Skye Holland

Skye Holland, Central St. Martins alumni and also art educator, skillfully engages oil, graphite, acrylic, pigment powders, and gold leaf to create mixed media paintings and drawings. Her intricate techniques, inspired by the experience of being in varying environments, moves intuitively between abstraction and figuration. Each layered mark introduce whispers of thought, emotion, memory and sometimes just pure energy. Artists and viewers alike find themselves immersed in Holland's poignant portrayal of a fragile world, stirred by her evocative representation of human impact and the unsettling beauty of impermanence.

"I paint from remembered landscapes I carry with me - and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed. I could certainly never mirror nature. I would like more to paint what it leaves me with" - Joan Mitchell