Bethany Holmes: Wide eyed dreaming

Acrylic, Oil Stick & Pastel on Canvas

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Bethany graduated from Nottingham Trent University with a BA in Textile Design. She has gallery representation throughout the UK and has had two solo shows, with work in many private collections worldwide.

In a field in rural Essex, Bethany Holmes conceives her energetic and expressive paintings. From a secluded studio, she takes inspiration from her surroundings, but the works she creates are not landscapes, but instead a layering of experience.

The shifting light, changes in temperature, and the ways colours interact give Bethany inspiration. Colour is a path to be followed, and Holmes has a hyperawareness of the nuances, vibrations, and implications of a given palette.

 Her approach is frenetic, committing paint to a given surface with rapidity and abandon, and she describes this as being loud and that it occurs with a burst. Working in close proximity to a surface, an urgent and unconscious rhythm takes over her in a vigorous visual cacophony. Brushes, which keep within the span of the hand, become decision makers as she strikes – briskly sweeping and jabbing – there is a beauty in the fight.

Each painting is a journey executed with an empowered confidence. They are emotive battles that are about living, the passages of life converging, experience layered, of simply being in the moment.