Martha Holmes

Martha Holmes captures the essence of the Cornish coastline, in particular the Penwith landscape, 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 – 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 environment – her own experience communicated through colour and expressive mark making.

More recently, Martha’s work has looked to illustrate the hybrid between the interiorstudio and the interior landscape beyond. Noticing how structures and layers in the studio – jugs of blooms, open artists books, existingpaintings – paired with the organic forms of the landscapebeyond, have allowed new paintingswith a different overall spatial dynamic to form. 

Visit her artist website to find out more about her practice, MarthaHolmes.com.