Category: water
-
Works In Water
Paintings for Spring Over the past year, Andrew has been juggling working on new projects with moving house and – rather more dauntingly – his studio. Now unpacked and settled into his interim workspace, Andrew has been free to forward some more recent works to a few independent galleries. He has finally also had more time…
-
Royal Institute of OiI Painters – 2016 Exhibition
AB Holmes – searcher, Oil on Panel, 40cm x 50cm Opening next week at the Mall Galleries in Central London, the Royal Institute of OiI Painters (ROI) will be showing this year’s selection of members’ paintings together with just over one hundred pieces chosen from the open submission to be included in the exhibition. The selections were made earlier…
-
In Water
A selection of more recent paintings in Andrew Holmes series of people in water will be showing over the next few days with Panter and Hall at the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea. In these paintings Andrew continues to examine how light and contrast play such a significant role in how we perceive an image – where the abstract element…
-
Gondolas at the Alexander Gallery
A few Classic views of Venice are now exhibiting in Bath over the coming months. Gallery owner Peter Slade recently commissioned more work featuring Venice for his winter show and he dropped by to collect four new paintings from Andrew earlier this week. When revisiting a subject, Andrew’s approach is to bring together new ideas developed in other areas he studies to…
-
Discerning Eye 2015
The Discerning Eye annual exhibition is a show of small works opening this week. Work for this exhibition is selected from open submission and from artists invited by six prominent figures from different areas of the art world: two artists, two collectors and two critics. Each individual selector curates work by their invited artists alongside the successful selected…
-
The Blackheath Gallery
Over Several years, a selection of Andrew Holmes works have been exhibited with Gallerist James Corless, at the Blackheath Gallery, near Greenwich.
-
Democratic Beach
AB Holmes – searcher – Oil on Panel, 40cm x 50cm The Jack House Gallery in Old Portsmouth previewed a new exhibition this week featuring Andrew Holmes Bathers and Studies in Water. Timed to co-incide with the opening day of the America’s Cup Challenge, the area was teeming with yachtsman and sailing enthusiasts, the water awash with sails. Despite some…
-
Works on Paper – bathers
Over recent months, Andrew has further explored some earlier ideas of bathers on paper. Initially only intended to be studies for the bather subjects on panel, as Andrew explored various mediums, this became an interesting process where several pieces have evolved into “stand alone” works.
-
Jack House Gallery
Owner and Art Curator, Rebecca Crow opened the Jack House Gallery this weekend in Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK . The new, Contemporary Art Gallery situated in the Old Town area, close to the Cathedral and just set back from the waterfront, launched their first show on Saturday 4th of April with works by the much travelled artist, Amartey Golding.
-
“Morning” bather called in for the RA Summer selection
“Morning” has been called in to the Royal Academy for the second stage of the selection process for the forthcoming annual Summer Exhibition. Andrew is drawn to the subjects of water and bathers, in particular because the light, layers and content can offer him the opportunity to represent these in a natural, understated manner.
-
‘dog with stick in dark water’
Oil on paper 57x76cm The Panter and Hall Gallery, located in Pall Mall, London, SW1, have just received an additional painting of a Dog swimming by Andrew Holmes .
-
Studies of Water – Painted in Oils
The more recent series of Andrew Holmes’s studies of “water with dog swimming” are nearing completion. These paintings make up part of a larger body of work which Andrew has been focusing on over the past few months, covering the subject of ‘water and swimmers’ in a variety of spaces and locations. When Andrew approaches each painting, a different challenge is presented. In…
-
Royal Academy – Summer Exhibition 2014
boy bathing – shortlisted This year artists were invited to a submit their work for the 2014 Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art by supplying digital images online. The Academy limited the submissions to 12,000 and the judges then selected 4,000 to be delivered for further assessment. Artists who have been fortunate enough to be shortlisted at this stage are asked…
-
Venice goes to Bath
The Alexander Gallery in Bath have just taken delivery of a selection of Andrew Holmes paintings of Venice for their Easter Show. This is a one of Andrew’s larger paintings of a view of St Marks Square early in the morning before the crowds gather. It’s fascinating to watch Venice gently wake for a new day…
-
The Alexander Gallery – Venice – Christmas 2013
Andrew’s Venice work is now showing with the Alexander Gallery in the beautiful city of Bath, UK.