Work held by Wales&#39; premier art Gallery - <a href="https://welshart.net/artists/44-chloe-holt/works/">Ffin Y Parc Gallery</a>, North Wales.

Ffin Y Parc Gallery, Betws Road, Llanrwst, Conwy, LL26 0PT
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Wednesday - Saturday 10-5pm
Sunday 11-5pm
Ralph and Craig <a href="tel:441492642070">+44(0)1492 642070</a>
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Ffin Y Parc Gallery

80.5 w x 106 h cm (Framed 123 w x 146.5 h cm)

Oil, mixed media and gesso on board in dramatic 18th Century Italian gilded antique frame with perfect patination

Gaudium Vitae - Joy of Life

80.5 w x 130 h cm Unframed

Mixed media on Arches Oil Paper (Framed in modern gilded slim frame floating on mount glazed - complete size TBC)

Nubibus Solis Occasum - Sunset Clouds

Serenus - Cloudless & Serene

Luce Prima - Daybreak

Solis Ortus - Sunrise

31 w x 38 h cm (Framed 46w x 57 h)

Oil and gesso on board in gilded 17th Century Venetian Baroque Frame with shell, glazed with antique glass

Limone Fiori

Lumen - The Light

Caelum - Blue Skies of Heaven

46.5 w x 37 h cm (Framed 73 w x 58.5 h cm)

Oil and gesso on board in Italian early 18th Century frame, glazed with antique glass

Hesperidium

115.5 h x 145 w cm (Framed 142 h x 171.5 w cm)

Oil, mixed media and gesso on board in gilded and delicately verdigris French Antique Early 19th Century frame

Radiance

37.5 w x 26.5 h cm (Framed 47 w x 35.5 h cm)

Oil and gesso on board framed in Italian antique Gilded Composition Cassetta frame c.1840

Limon Dolce Ordin

Moments of fleeting beauty are captured and mirrored - the tension between glimpses of pure joy in the every day revered. The arrival of Spring is signalled by the blousy peony flowers, abundant and expressive, their faces tilting to the stars. 
They feel expansive, incandescent like a new constellation in the nights sky or transported by a twighlight tide.

Mixed media and oil on Arches Oil Paper Glazed in Antique Frame

95 cm w 65 cm h Unframed - (Framed size TBC)

As the Peony Flowers Bloom, the Tide Carries The Stars

The harmony and beauty of newly opened sculptural peony flowers dancing in sunlight and shadows. Their beauty transient. 
I contemplate how nature can fill us with happiness through its effortless creation.  

Mixed media and oil on Arches Oil Paper Glazed in Antique Frame

95 cm w x 65 cm h Unframed - (Framed size TBC)

Dances with Peeking Sunlight

58 w x 42.5 h cm (Framed 75 w x 59.5 h cm)

Oil, mixed media and gesso on board in antique French Composition Bourbon Restoration Scotia Frame c.1850

Ceruleum Cosmos

&quot;But like love
the archers
are blind

Upon the green night,
the piercing saetas
leave traces of warm
lily.

The keel of the moon
breaks through purple clouds
and their quivers
fill with dew.

Ay, but like love
the archers
are blind!&quot;

- Before The Dawn - Federico Garcia Lorca

53 w x 42 h cm (Framed 71 w x 60 h cm)

Oil, mixed media and gesso on board in antique gilded French Rococo Revival Frame c.1860

Before The Dawn - Lorca

Mixed media and oil on board

80.5 cm w x 106 cm h Unframed

Horis Diei - Daylight Hours

18 w x 25 h cm (Framed37 w x 44.5 h cm)

Oil and gesso on board framed in English gilded Composition Louis XVI Frame c.1850

Aranzo Con Foglia

81 w x 69 h cm (Framed 98.5 w x 86 h cm)

Oil, mixed media and gesso on board in antique gilded frame c.1840

Aestas Sole - Summer Sunshine

The Iris creating delicate and fragile silouettes in the brightest lights. They visit fleetingly - like butterflies. Their dark purple hued petals are translucent making them feel diaphanous, weightless and intangible.

Oil, mixed media and gesso on board in Antique Frame

98 cm w x 78 cm h Unframed (Framed size 118 cm w x 99 cm h)

Iris

Fleeting sunlight, shadows and glimpses of the bluest heavenly skies.
A celebration of harmony and beauty in nature.
The simple humility of the sun drenched lemon has a delicate fragility.
Pure joy in the everyday, we dream of warmer climes and bright days.

Oil, gold leaf and gesso on board in rare outstanding Venetian Baroque Antique Frame c.1740

33.5 cm w x 27.5 cm h Unframed (Framed 51 cm w x 46 cm h)

Heavenly fruit

New Spring flowers, peonies and Fairy Lily dance together. Their shapes and forms imprint in my dreams. The abundance of these radiant flowers make my mind feel drunk with their beauty.

Mixed media and oil on Fabriano Paper

50 cm w x 70 cm h Unframed (Framed size 59 cm w x 79 cm h)

Drunk With Flowers, Butterflies Swirling In Your Dreams

Luminous light shines through the silouetted translucent petals of the Spring Iris. They are frivolous, almost illusory, persisting harmony and beauty.
Yet they are observed moments of fleeting beauty - there is a tension and a reverence when trying to capture glimpses of pure joy in the every day. 

Oil and mixed media on Fabriano Paper

50 cm w x 70 cm h Unframed (Framed size 59 cm w x 79 cm h)

Fleur-De-Lis

Oil and graphite on paper.
Unframed size 77.5 cm w x 57 cm h. Framed 94 cm w x 76 cm h.

The First Snows

Oil and mixed media on Arches&#39; Oil Paper.
Unframed size 130 cm w x 83 cm h. Framed size 180 cm w x 94 cm h.

Crystalline Valley (Cwm Crisialog)

Oil and mixed media on Arches&#39; Oil paper.
Unframed size 130 cm w x 83 cm h. Framed size 180 cm w x 94 cm h.

Lunar Skies (Awyr Lleuad)

Oil and mixed media on Arches&#39; Oil paper.
Unframed size 130 cm w x 83 cm w. Framed size 180 cm w x 94 cm h.

Midwinter (Canol Gaeaf)

Melt Off (Toddi I Ffwrdd)

Oil, mixed media and gesso on board in window-shaped antique frame.
Unframed size 46 cm w x 65 cm h. Framed 56 cm w x 75 cm h.

Afon Ogwen 

Water and graphite on paper.

59.4 w x 42 h cm.

Coastal Splash

Watercolour, charcoal and graphite on paper.

59.4 w x 42 h cm.

Sea Lines

Watercolour and graphite on aquarelle paper.

Sky & Sea

&quot;Narcissus&quot; 53 w x 58.5 h cm (63.5 x 68 cm Framed)
Oil, raw verdigris pigment and gesso on board in antique frame.

Narcissus

Oil, graphite and gesso on board in antique frame.

82.5 w x 77 h cm (Framed 89.5 w x 84 h cm)

Pilot's Window

Inula Helenium faces the sun.

Oil, raw pigment and encaustic wax on board in antique frame.

42 w x 63 h cm (Framed 75 w x 95 h cm)

Watching Apollo

Cadmium deep yellow sunflowers in French confit pot.

Oil, raw pigment and encaustic wax on board in antique frame.

57 w x 78 h cm (Framed 72 w x 93 h cm)

Cadmia Sunflowers

Oil, raw pigment, graphite and gesso on board in hand-painted antique frame.

102 w x 71.5 h cm (Framed 120 w x 90 h cm)

Dwynwen

Oil, raw pigment and encaustic wax on board in hand-painted antique frame.

47.5 w x 40.5 h cm (Framed 68 w x 61 h cm)

Wildflowers

Huge scale field of suflowers and their radiant crowns. Helios is the god of the Sun in Ancient Greek. The painting is full of light, energy and drama.

Oil, raw pigment, encaustic wax and gesso on board in antique frame.

152 w x 122 h cm (Framed 188 w x 157 h cm)

Helios

Raw pigment, oil, charcoal and gesso on board in antique frame.

80 h x 90 w cm. Framed 89 h x 99 w cm.

Ynys Llanddwyn

Oil and graphite on Archers Oil paint paper.

130 w x 82 h cm

Acqua Alta

Oil and graphite on Archers Oil paper.

130 x 82 cm.

From Ynys Llanddwyn

Watercolour and charcoal on aquarelle paper.

35 w x 25.5 h cm.

Waters Edge

Watercolour, charcoal and graphite on aquarelle paper.

50.8 w x 40.6 h cm

The Black Mountains of Snowdonia

Watercolour and graphite on aquarelle paper.

35 w x 25.5 h cm

Study of Anglesey Rock pools

Watercolour and graphite on paper.

70 w x 25 h cm

Across To Black Mountains I & II

20 x 20 cm unframed (Framed 28.5 x 28.5 cm)

Oil, charcoal and gesso on board.

Damascenum

15 x 18 cm unframed

Oil and gesso on board.

Auctumnus

22 x 19 cm unframed (Framed 29 x 26 cm)

Oil and gesso on board.

Livia

Honesty

&#39;Oleum Setis&#39; - Oil and Brush in Latin. The amphora shape is an ancient storage jar used to carry oil at sea. These beautiful ovid shapes carrying precious materials across vast oceans...

Raw pigment, oil and gesso on board in antique frame.

Framed 74 w x 64 h cm (61 x 51.5cm aperture)

Oleum Setis

Ad Lucem means &#39;bring to light&#39; in Latin. A new period of learning and discovering, of bringing to light. Simple objects in the studio: the pewter spoon, the tiny wooden chair and pewter plate; my Biot or Frejus jar covered in bright ochre lichens - all illuminating in the light from the dark studio floor. The plate and spoon as an offering.

Oil, raw pigment, powdered mica and gesso on board in antique frame.

Framed 133 w x 109 h cm (117 x 94 cm aperture)

Ad Lucem

The Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice, situated on the Grand Canal near the Rialto Bridge. It was the headquarters and restricted living quarters of the city&#39;s (Tedeschi) merchants. True Merchants of Venice. For the first time in history there is now a viewing platform at the top of what is now a high-end Department Store and you can now see the South and North of the Grand canal - a great swept vista from high above, one that has never been painted (in my knowledge) before. It looks like an unreal perspective buy you can see the Rialto Bridge roof tops at your feet and Gondola that look like waterboatmen fleeting across the great Grand Canal surrounded by this Renaissance city and its burnt siena and red ochre walls. Magical!

Oil and gesso on board in antique frame.

Framed 123.5 w x 105 h cm (101 x 81.5 cm aperture)

Fondaco Dei Tedeschi

Oil and gesso on board in antique frame.

Framed 115 w x 98 h cm (85 x 69 cm aperture)

Vespers

Oil and gesso on board in antique frame.

Framed 75 w x 64.5 h cm (61 x 50 cm aperture)

Adoration

Oil and gesso on board in antique frame.

Framed 56 w x 44 h cm (44.5 x 32cm aperture)

Patera De Citrea

Oil and gesso on board in antique frame.

Framed 88 w x 78 h cm (67 x 56.5 cm aperture)

Orvieto Limone

Oil and gesso on board in antique hand painted frame.

Framed 107 x 91.5cm

The Pearls

Oil and gesso on board in remade antique frame.

15 x 13cm (Framed 29.5 x 27cm)

Dionysus

Oil, graphite and gesso on board in antique Venetian frame.

Framed 131 x 156cm

The Grand Canal

Oil and gesso on board in remade antique frame.

15 x 13cm (Framed 30 x 27cm)

For Juno

Oil and gesso on board in remade antique frame.

17 x 12.5cm (Framed 30.5 x 26cm)

Anar

Oil and gesso on board in remade antique frame.

17 x 12.5cm (Framed 31.5 x 28cm)

Femminello

Oil and gesso on board in remade antique frame.

17 x 12cm (Framed 28.5 x 24cm)

Clement

Oil and gesso on board in remade antique frame.

17 x 13cm (Framed 28.5 x 24cm)

Clementine

Oil and gesso on board in antique frame.

Framed 80 x 77.5cm

Cherish

Oil and gesso on board in antique frame.

Framed 75.5 x 60cm

Goodness 

Oil and gesso on board in antique frame.

Framed 22 x 18cm

Le Citron

Oil and gesso on board in antique hand painted frame.

Framed 39 x 48.5cm

Novella Santa Maria 

Oil and gesso on board in 18th Century Antique frame.

Framed 38 x 33cm

Hera

Oil and gesso on board in antique frame.

Framed 50 x 60cm

Mestolo 

Limone Culina 

Oil and gesso on board in antique frame.

Framed 43 x 33cm

Sang Bleu 

Oil and gesso on board in antique frame.

Framed 100 x 86cm.

Punta Della Dogana

Oil and gesso on board in antique frame.

Framed 87.6 x 68cm

The Gondola 

Oil and gesso on board in antique frame.

Framed 36 x 44cm

Nostrano 

The last vibrant flowers. Asters are named after the Greek word for &#39;star&#39;. They symbolise love, wisdom and faith - in Greek mythology it was a symbol of love and placed on altars for the Gods. Golden sunlight breaks into violet-blue delicate light creating silouettes of Asters and seed heads.

Oil and gesso on board. 
19 cm w x 22 cm h unframed size.

Lovers In A Violet Sky

28 w x 35 h cm (Framed 43 w x 50 h cm)

Mixed media and gesso on board in antique English Regence Frame c.1820

Candentis - Glowing

The change from Summer to Autumn brings a new luminous delicate blue-violet light. If you glance out from your windows you will see that the light is completely saturated with this colour - it creates halos around objects. The last of the Summer flowers dance in their new dream.

Oil and gesso on board. 
19 cm w x 22 cm h unframed size.

Sun In The Sky

The final humble flowers from the end of Summer. They dance with vibrancy, their faces smiling to the sun. The garden embraces it&#39;s own imperfection, a tangle of twigs, seeds and flower heads - and creates a new moment. There is a Northerly freshness to the air.

Oil and gesso on board. 
19 cm w x 22 cm h unframed size.

Midsummers Night's Dream

&quot;So long as the earth shall survive and as each spring shall see it covered with flowers, the Rudbekia will preserve your glorious name...It&#39;s rayed flowers will bear witness that you shone among savants like the sun among the stars...&quot; - Blunt &#39;The Compleat Naturalist&#39;

A celebration of the Sun.

Oil and gesso on board. 
19 cm w x 22 cm h unframed size.

Soleil

The garden rustles with the sound of seasons changing. The late Summer flowers begin to transform into organic forms - pods and seeds. The changing light of the season brings new vibrant colours and wonderful textures. Cutting and gathering branches and flowers from the garden feels like a kind of meditation.

Oil and gesso on board. 
19 cm w x 15 cm h unframed size.

Winters Bouquet

Architectural delicate twigs and branches are revealed and accented by ice crystals from the first frosts. The vibrant cadmium Rudbeckia resemble bright stars and the skies are violet at dusk.

Oil and gesso on board. 
19 cm w x 15 cm h unframed size.

Ice Flower

The last moments of Summer, as the bright shining face of Rudbeckia remains long into the first glimmers of Autumn. The skies move swiftly with wispy clouds, the afternoon light takes on a violet blue. The seed heads decorate the garden with their graphic forms for Winter.

Oil and gesso on board. 
19 cm w x 15 cm h unframed size.

Seed Heads In Autumn Light

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From latin aurea *&quot;golden&quot; referencing the disk of light surrounding the heads of sacred figures. The sunflowers remind me of this light, their radiant crowns and faces turning to follow the sun.*

Oil, raw pigment, encaustic wax and gesso on board in hand-painted antique frame.

105.5 w x 75.5 h cm (Framed 124 w x 94 h cm)

Aurea

The radiance of luminous cloud which surrounds the sunflower.

Oil, raw pigment, encaustic wax and gesso on board in antique frame.

108 w x 150 h cm (Framed 119 w x 156.5 h cm)

Halos

Oil, raw pigment, graphite and gesso on board.
Unframed size 90 cm w x 72 cm h. Framed size 103 cm w x 85 cm h.

Halen Môr (Sea Salt)

Oil, mixed media and gesso on board.
Unframed size 163 cm w x 77 cm h. Framed size 180 cm w x 94 cm h.

I'r Môr (To The Sea)

22 x 19 cm unframed (Framed 30 x 28 cm)

Oil and gesso on board.

Damascus

20 x 20 cm (Framed 28.5 x 28.5 cm)

Oil, Indian Ink and gesso on board.

To Autumn

The Sea Poppy from last year&#39;s Summer still resonates. It proliferates and climbs hostile surfaces of exposed stone, taking hold in the smallest cracks against the elements.

Skies become seas, and the swathes my California Tree Poppy - the tides. My garden&#39;s banks become rocky edges of land. My memory of those past days in my favourite coastal places: from Lanzarote to St Ives; and Llanddwyn, on Anglesea - I recall exploring the wild coast lines and discovering this exceptional beauty surviving and flourishing against all odds.

130 w x 90 h cm

Oil, raw pigment and pastel on Arches Oil paint paper

Sea Poppy

Gold and silver light licks the shape of leaves of the Tree Poppy in the sunlight, shadows become pools of blue light. The early Summer garden becomes a place you could dive deep into.

Named Grotto Azzurra after the Blue Grotto sea cave of Capri - sunlight passes through the water transforming the place, reflecting an incredible azure blue or emerald light. It is said that objects under water famously appear silver because of the dazzling light refraction. In Roman times, Emperor Tiberius used the Grotto as a marine temple and swimming hole - it was decorated with statues of the sea god Neptune and Triton.

130 w x 88 h cm

Oil and pastel on Arches Oil paint paper

Grotto Azzurra

Oil and gesso on board.
Unframed size 51 cm w x 39 cm h. Framed size 61 cm w x 48 cm h.

Seler Halen (Salt Cellar)

On a ’Pompeii Red’ Natural pigment ‘fresco’ surface, ‘Lararium’ is a luminous, delicate and offering painting. Based around the notion of the Roman Lararium or the shrine in the centre of the home. A shrine to the guardian spirits of the Roman household. Family members performed daily rituals at this shrine to guarantee the protection of these domestic spirits, the most significant of which were the lares.

Oil, raw pigment and gesso on board in antique frame.

52 w x 44 h cm (Framed size)

Lararium 

Oil, raw pigment and gesso on board.
Unframed size 51 cm w x 39 cm h. Framed size 61 cm w x 48 cm h.

Our History (Ein Hanes)

Oil, pastel and gesso on board.
Unframed size 44 cm w x 32 cm h. Framed size 55 cm w x 41.5 cm h.

Bowlen Laeth Ocr (Ochre Dairy Bowl)

&#39;Alba&#39; a Latin word for &#39;white, clear, bright&#39;. Its&#39; connotations of the dawn as the sunrise begins with bright clear light. Alba illuminates.

35.5 x 26 cm ( Framed 47 x 37.5 cm )

Oil, graphite and gesso on board in antique frame.

Alba

A stack of medieval bowls and storage jar in my studio. Once used for transporting across the seas and to hold oils or pigments from far away places. Their surfaces are worn as if eroded by the sea. Their potters slips and glazes so natural like the shifting sands, their usage perfectly every day.

Kabir (c. 1440-1518) wrote, in The Clay Jug:

<blockquote>
Inside this clay jug are canyons and pine mountains
And the maker of canyons and pine mountains
All seven oceans are inside, and hundreds of millions of stars
The acid that tests gold is there and the one that judges jewels
And the music from the strings that no one touches,
and the source of all water
If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth:
Friend, listen....
The God whom I love is inside
</blockquote>

92 x 61 cm ( Framed 117 x 89.5 cm )
Oil, raw pigment and gesso on board in antique frame.

Of Purity and Purpose

Oil and gesso on board.
Unframed size 51 cm w x 40 cm h. Framed size 64 cm w x 54 cm h.

Seed of Winter (Had Y Gaeaf)

Persephone is the Greek Goddess of Spring. This still life of the pewter bowl, pomegranates and the budding Winter&#39;s branch. The pomegranates seeds awaiting the renewing warmth of Spring and Summer.

61 x 51 cm (Framed 75 x 65cm)

Oil and gesso on board in hand-painted antique frame.

Persephone

The great magnolia signalling the first signs of Winter turning to Spring. In my February visit to Cornwall, the peninsular is a month ahead..great beautiful pink and white noble blooms are the gentle awakening of Spring.

115 x 70.5 cm ( Framed 136 x 90.5 c

Oil, graphite and gesso on board in antique frame.

Grandiflora

Stars of magnolia in the dusky light, signalling the beginning of spring against brooding atmospheric grey-white skies.

69 x 59 cm ( Framed 93 x 82 cm )

Oil, graphite and gesso on board in antique frame.

Spring's Bloom

The fleeting beauty of magnolia buds bursting into bloom change as life also begins to bloom again and the days get longer and the seasons change. The magnolias short but glorious life, like Japanese &#39;Sakura&#39; blossom, speak of the impermanence of time and ground us in pure enjoyment of this moment.

47 x 67 cm ( Framed 66 x 86 cm )

Oil, graphite and gesso on board in antique frame.

Winter's Spring

Dusk falls and highlights the outline of architectural agapanthus flower heads; bold brilliant Echinacea; soft vibrations of cornflower blue Scabiosa and Delphinium; and starry white Aster luminous against a pale viridian sky. The night time garden draws on.

Named after Titus Livius who was known as one of Rome&#39;s distinguished historians, he was known as &#39;the man from Pompeii&#39; and the tones of this painting bear semblance to the classic greens found in the frescoes of Pompeii.

71.5 w x 48 h cm (Framed size 89w x 66 h cm)

Raw pigment, oil paint with encaustic damar and beeswax wax on board in an antique frame.

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