Chris Holmes Antiques & Art
Representative Gallery - Chris Holmes Antiques & Art, North Yorkshire.
Chris Holmes Antiques & Art, 22-24 Finkle Street, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, HG5 8AA Directions to the Gallery
Appointment Only Monday - Saturday 11-4pm Sunday 11-3pm Make your appointment with Chris +44(0)7771 962494 chris@chrisholmesantiques.co.uk
"Selkie" comes from the mythology of the mermaid - a creature that lives as seals in the sea and shed their skin to become human. The giant fronts of seaweed remind me of these transformative creatures, beautiful glossy skins lying in the shallow turquoise and purple sea anenome filled rock pools.
Oil and gesso on board in antique frame. Work at Chris Holmes Antiques.
74 x 102 cm (framed 90 x 117cm)
Oil and gesso on board in antique frame. The coolness of the Spring breeze and the glow of the warming sun. 'Olwen' is a celebration of spring - known as one of the Spring Goddesses, wherever Olwen trod pure white clovers sprung from the ground. Work at Chris Holmes Antiques. 125.5 x 65.5cm (Framed 107 x 86cm)
Oil and gesso on board in handpainted antique frame. Freya was the Norse goddess of love and fertility and mythological wife of Odin in Scandinavian mythology. This powerful impressionistic painting is full of power and surface, thick lacerated textures and depth. Observing the arrival of Spring with white amaryllis in bud, lilac and roses. Work at Chris Holmes Antiques. 88 x 66.5cm (Framed 107 x 86cm)