Category: donut
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Waffle and doughnuts,..
A couple of weeks before the festive break we delivered a selection of Andrew Holmes’s still life works to the Fairfax Gallery in Royal Tunbridge Wells, a spa town dating back to Roman times. The gallery is located in the Pantiles – an elegant colonnaded walkway situated in the centre of the town and where the spa can be found. These…
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‘The Cakes are Back’ – at the Alexander Gallery in Bath
Together with some of this year’s figure studies. Andrew Holmes cake paintings have been well-received in Bath, a beautiful, historic city with an abundance of tea shops and varied eateries. He painted Aphrodite and Adonis and I am a donut earlier in the year and they are making their debut in a location which feels very appropriate. The owner of the Alexander Gallery…
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Aubergine Gallery – Wimbledon
A selection of Andrew Holmes still life paintings of cakes are currently showing with The Aubergine Gallery in Wimbledon. Andrew’s cake and food paintings have always been a subject for which he is well known. Whilst he continues to explore the figurative pieces, he regularly revisits the vocabulary of still life. This provides Andrew some objectivity; a different viewpoint…
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What’s in a name
I am a doughnut – Food and cake paintings provide a rich source of inspiration and this subject is where Andrew Holmes is perhaps better known. Whilst Andrew plans a series of paintings under an initial group title, it is during the process where he then determines how this will be reflected and when individual titles are attributed.
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Afternoon tea in Bath
The Historic city of Bath is best known for the stunning architecture, the Regency Crescents, and for the Roman Baths, Pump Rooms and Spa; recently updated with a well-considered Modernist extension which eloquently enhances the original building. Bath has always attracted visitors from every corner of the world and it never disappoints. Light sandstone is used as the local building material…
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Medici Gallery Exhibition
Andrew Holmes’ paintings have been well received at the Still Life show running until 8th July ’14. The show includes a wide variety pieces from Pierre-Yves Russo’s paintings on Copper Plate alongside Jo Barrett, Barbara Richardson RBA, Tom Hughes and Anna Paik. We were really pleased with the Lemon Meringue, a delicate pastry which, as a painting subject, provided…
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Still Life – detail and abstraction
There is an exhibition of Still life work scheduled at The Medici Gallery in Cork Street, London, next month, which will include some of Andrew Holmes’ work. The show opens on June 10th and runs through to July 8th 2014. The Gallery Curator has chosen a number of Andrew Holmes’ still life paintings to exhibit in this show and we are delighted with…
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Devil in the detail – a selection of Cake Paintings
Cake or Cake 2013 Now dry and ready for the New Year, here are some of Andrew’s cake paintings which will be showing over the coming months. Returning again to the cupcakes, the scones’ work and the chocolate slice; Dignity (originally named *Cake or Death), exhibiting with the Unix Gallery in Miami, and discussed in our earlier Art Basel…
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Art Basel – Miami
Some of Andrew Holmes – ‘Eating Pieces’ The first week in December saw the start of Art Basel, the largest annual Art event in Miami. ‘Songs of Innocence’ – AB Holmes – Oil on Canvas, 122cm x 152cm In late 2012, the Unix Gallery, based in the lively Wynwood Arts District, approached Andrew and asked if they could commission a group of larger paintings…
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Welcome to Andrew Holmes’s new blog
This is the official blog for the British artist, Andrew Holmes, most well known for his delicious paintings of cakes and pastries. Here, you will be able to keep up to date with the latest information on Andrew’s works and exhibitions. To visit Andrew B Holmes website, please see: www.andrewholmes.co.uk Contact: info@andrewholmes.co.uk © AB Holmes 2014, All rights…