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A new linocut series: Quiet Creatures
Small linocut scenes shaped by nature, stillness, and change.

Jenn Holmes
Jan 162 min read


Virtual Exhibition Feature: Birds
My painting, End of Expectations, was featured in a Virtual Exhibition titled Birds, with the Women in Arts Network . The Virtual Exhibition Birds , brought together painting, photography, sculpture, and digital work exploring birds as symbols of movement, fragility, attention, and change. Across the show, artists responded to the quiet presence of birds in the landscape and the way small gestures can carry meaning without spectacle. I was drawn to the theme because it mirr

Jenn Holmes
Dec 1, 20251 min read


From Fantasy to Realism: A Journey Through My Evolving Artistic Style
I've gathered together a collection of some older artwork, to show the evolution and building blocks of my artistic style as well as...

Jenn Holmes
Feb 18, 20252 min read


Painting Review: The Journey of Levitate & Adrift
I didn't know before starting that these two paintings that they would become a pair, it was a bit of a natural evolution leading from one to the other (and then back again, as I'll later explain). I had not painted something big for about two years and I remember wanting to paint something that was for me. Adrift grew to be an expression of how I was feeling about my art at the time. I had been feeling frustrated as a graphic designer, unable to express my own thoughts and i

Jenn Holmes
Oct 31, 20183 min read


Fantasy Art: The Power of Imagination and the Quest for Artistic Legitimacy
"From Medieval illustrated manuscripts to Renaissance phantasmagoria, Pre-Raphaelite mysticism to Dada and Surrealism, the mystical,...

Jenn Holmes
Oct 22, 20183 min read
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