CHRIS HOLLEY, FINE ART BA (Hons)  
Expressive painter and art communicator 

Making art in a time of Covid

Many thanks for visiting my website in this surreal time of second 2020 lockdown. Covid isn't easy for any of us. For me there's little change as I seem to live my life in semi-quarantine to get any art done at all. I'm bolstered too by deep interest and involvement in dance and music and am steadily getting on with painting. I hope you are OK too and finding ways to beat Covid winter blues. Take care and stay well...

Creative Lockdown Activity

*  Filming with Michael Portillo for the art focus in an episode of Great British Railway Journeys, due to air March 2021.
*  Virtual and live exhibitions plus #portraitsfornhsheroes (please see CV).
*  A journey in abstraction.

Rhythmical Horizons (see graphics below): c. twelve works, from a starting point of three small, purely abstract paintings, Rhythmical Horizons I, II and III, on canvas. Focusing in deeper to amplify/simplify areas  of interest, the images are now scaled up on paper and canvas. Please see below an example selection of Rhythmical Horizons plus three paintings that evolved from them. The possibilities are endless.

Different Light I and II (see graphics below): two paintings responding to Welsh composer Guto Puw's Different Light. Guto's concept for his music is a painting being moved across differing spaces and its appearance subtly changing in differing lights. Guto's response to my paintings: "The colours are so absorbing and subtly vibrant, with the replication of shapes and the slight difference in the hues of colour between the two paintings most engaging. Comparing the two, each time I revisit them I’ve been taken on a very different and pleasing journey."

Rhythmical Horizons: paintings evolving from small beginnings...

Different Light I and II, after Welsh composer Guto Puw