Martha Holmes
PAINTER
ABOUT MARTHA
Martha captures the essence of the Cornish coastline through abstract studies of colour and light. Her work is emotively charged by a deep connection to the ocean and its ever-changing influence on the landscape from which she paints.
Inspired by the Cornish masters - Heron, Hepworth, Nicholson, Scott, Bray - Martha's works in oil immerse the viewer in an emotional dialect, born from a deep-rooted connection to the land where she grew up.
Abstract in form, often with large flat areas of colour, Martha’s work captures a raw and honest sense of the landscape - her own experience communicated through colour and expressive mark making.
More recently, Martha’s work has looked to illustrate the hybrid between the interior studio and the interior landscape beyond. Noticing how structures and layers in the studio – jugs of blooms, open artists books, existing paintings – paired with the organic forms of the landscape beyond, have allowed new paintings with a different overall spatial dynamic to form.
