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

Making art in a time of Covid

Many thanks for visiting my website in this surreal time. Covid isn't easy for any of us but a deep interest and in dance and music is my saviour and fuels my visual art too.  And we've got this far so let's hang on in as it feels like Spring is in the air...

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 deeper to amplify/simplify and develop areas  of interest, the images 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