Rebecca Holmes

Though rendered with precision, the landscapes Rebecca depicts are a composite of figurative elements, discrete natural phenomena, recorded with charcoal, ink and photography, cut up, distorted and combined to create an unnatural location, one which speaks as directly to the emotions as it does to the senses. Rebecca makes most of her work in the middle of the night when it is quiet and she can let the image evolve. The works end up being psychological landscapes as well as physical ones and she uses the time making to calm and realign her thoughts. She is far more interested in how a place makes a person feel, and what response or connection they may have to it, rather than how it “really” looks. Rebecca strives to go beyond appearance, to reach around and through it, to reach for something more essential. Nature, to her, is an event, not a static space that should be cherished.