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Interview with Women in Arts Network: Seeing a Leonardo da Vinci Painting in Real Life Changed How She Saw Art Forever
Originally posted on Women in Arts Network website 17 January 2026. Most artists will tell you their work is personal. But there’s a difference between making something personal and making something that invites others in. One is a closed door. The other is an open window. For our virtual exhibition Birds, hosted on Women in Arts Network, we selected artists who understood that birds aren’t just beautiful subjects they’re carriers of meaning, transformation, the tension betwe

Jenn Holmes
Jan 306 min read


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

Jenn Holmes
Jan 162 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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