Holly Dunham

Holly Dunhamis a Bristol based artist and graduate of Fine Art from the University of The West of England. She has enjoyed a long career exploring and exhibiting the full range of her craft and won the School of Creative Arts John Hulla Award with a First-Class Honours Degree. Soon after, Holly graduated as a qualified Art Teacher at master’s level teaching and worked in education for over 13 years.

Following a spell of poor health and a rethink of her life direction, Holly returned to her first love, painting. Her work is primarily of seascapes filled with colour, vibrant colourful flowers and atmospheric skies. Through her brush, Holly celebrates her ongoing love affair with the sea, landscapes, and nature’s healing powers, to inspire and transport her audience to a place of peace and mindfulness.

Lets Dance Amongst The Flowers Forever

Ref : HD 020 - 10x10inch

All the colours on Nature’s pallet fill this canvas. Calming skies look down below to a dance between colour and movement. This piece was a joy to paint and each layer of flowers has been lovingly painted, creating endless textures for you to enjoy.

Hopes Cove

Ref : HD 019 - 12x10inch

‘Hopes Cove’ is a small seaside village in an Area Of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the South Devon coast. This painting is a direct response to my visit, exploring the warm tones of the suns rays reflecting on the water at the end of each day. The pallet is bright resulting in a canvas bursting with colour, paint thickly applied and layered with a pallet knife and brush.

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible – Christopher Reeve

Red Skies

Ref HD 018 - 7x5inch

A rare piece from me in oils, this piece needed oils to build the colour and texture that it needed. Sailors and farmers relied on the weather to navigate ships and plant crops. The colours we see in the sky are rays of sunight being split into colours of the spectrum as they pass through the atmoshere. The amount of water vapor and dust in the atmospere determine which colours we will see in the sky. This painting is a celebration of natures glorious miracles, its red sk...

Hidden Cove

Ref : HD 017 - 20x30inch

Atmospheric skies sweep across the canvas, hugged in the foreground by long grasses blowing in the breeze. Paint, inks, pallet knife and brush create all the sumptious markings in this painting.

Joy

Ref : HD 016 - 20x20inch

Life can get busy sometimes. Sometimes we are so busy getting on with the business of life, we forget to just stop and just be. This painting offers a mindful moment, a pause to pay attention to our lives ~ to the thoughts and feelings we have. We can steer our ship and chart our course to anywhere we want to go.

Its A Beautiful Day

Ref : HD 015 - 10x10inch

The world is full of beauty, if only we allowed time to look. This eyecatching, detailed canvas is a respone to a beautiful moment while walking the cornish coast. Through a divide in the flowers swaying in the sea breeze, waves could be heard breaking on the shore. As the suns rays began to touch the water, I was reminded of the pure beauty that nature offers us every minute of every day. A romantic painting which will bring a ray of happiness, colour and warmth to a...

In the Hartland 10x8inch - a-painting-of-a-rocky-beach-with-f

Ref : HD 014 - 10x8inch

This piece is a response to a wonderful visit to Hartland Bay in Devon, to see its spectacular cliffs and contorted rock layers. North of Bude, Hartland Bay experiences some of the roughest seas in winter. Lovingly painted with brush and sculpted with pallet knife.

Freedom

Ref : HD 013

Birds flying high, sea below, the world is just as it should be. This piece is a direct reaction to the beauty of rocky times. Even in seasons of challenges we can find beauty and find things to be grateful for. In doing this – we learn and grow. The sea is ever changing. Choppy, turbulant seas, atmospheric skies always are followed by calm, peaceful seas. I nearly called this peace ‘Hope’ as it really resignated with me during the painting process. ‘Freedom’ eventually became its ...

I Am

Ref : HD 012 - 20x20inch

The sea holds a very magical place in my heart. ‘I am’ is a celebration of the seas healing powers. The seas positive energy is celebrated through the bright, colourful paint pallet used in the sky. Through any tough season, this painting can be viewed and its beauty and magic absorbed to aid healing. A moment of calm amidst the business of life.

Let it be

Ref : HD 011 - 47x16inch

A sweeping panorama of atmosperic skies, rolling cliffs in the distance and endless waves breaking on the shores. If you look close you can see a small murmuration of birds flying high above the waves. The piece is full of movement, layers and love. It has been reworked and reworked again until all the emotion needed was poured into the heart of it.

Let it go and let it be.

Gratitude

Ref : HD 010 - 10x10inch

Bold, standing tall the sunflower faces the sun. Soaking up all its positive, wholesome energy. Keep your face to the sun and allow the shadows to drift away. Painted with brush, pallet knife, sunrays and positve energy.

Let your smile change the world…

Passion Led Me Here

Ref : HD 009 - 20x20inch

This painting was inspired by my love affair with the sea. While walking the coastal path and discovering a hidden cove through the long grasses. A view so magical, it continues to transport the viewer to a place of calm and tranquillity, the sounds of the sea and the taste of salty air. The sound of crashing waves induces a deep state of relaxation on the mind and body ~ a moment in time captured for all to enjoy.

Safe Haven

Ref : HD 008 - 10x5inch

Gentle reflections, rustling waves and delicate flowers moving in the breeze. Calm skies, a safe haven.

Faith

Ref : HD 007 - 12x10inch

The glow of the sun rising begins to spread across the coast, spreading its warmth onto everything it touches. A bright pallet of blues and purples dominate this piece. Brush and pallet knife used to layer and sculpt.

Faith can move mountains – its all about believing.

Poppies after the Storm

Ref: HD 006 - 7x5inch

Atmospheric textured skies, wild flowers and calm seas fill ‘Poppies after the Storm’. A little pocket of calm to fill your home and a reminder that all things pass.

The sun always shines after the storm.

Secret Spot

Ref : HD 005 - 10x10inch

The sky is ever-changing, always creating a new canvas to paint. Atmospheric skies sweep through this joyful piece, hugged by layers and layers of sculpted flowers. The paint is laid on thickly, with floral detail wrapping around the canvas. A true celebration of natures gifts. The piece comes ready to hang.

A Moment

Ref : HD 004 - 47x16inch

A gorgeous panoramic seascape, celebrating every ounce of joy the coast offers. Rich purple heather frames the bottom of the painting leading the eye to explore. Heather represents admiration, beauty and good luck. It has been known to be associated with solitude and protection. The traditional purple heather is used to represent admiration, beauty and solitude, while the pink is associated with good luck.

Give It Love

Ref : HD 003 - 47x16inch

A blanket of flowers filling the canvas brings colour and joy to whoever views it. Memories of walking through fields of flowers, grasses passing through your finger tips and the breeze gently allowing the flowers to dance in the breeze. This piece is a a true celebration of natures treasures. The paint moves joyfully around the canvas, it has been allowed to flow as it pleases. Just as nature takes its own course – its own journey. Thats where the true magic happens.

A Celebration

Ref : HD 002 - 10x10inch

In a time of rapid development, growing population and unsustainable lifestyles and consumption, re-valuing how life is lived and our relationship with mother earth, is even more urgent. Through these efforts, practices of conservation and protection are vital. The preservation of ecosystems and nature itself. The future of the environment will depend on building stronger relationships and connections between people and nature. ‘A Celebration’ is a guardian of nature, ...

Natures Treasures

Ref : HD 001 - 47x16inch

Natures Treasures celebrates the natural beauty of the countryside that I am so lucky to be surrounded by. Nature has the fullest colour pallet of them all, if only we took the time to look. In this moment there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, no one to be. Breath and let it be.