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This picture features in a short film by our curator John Sheeran about Katharine Holmes's art, which you can watch by clicking on 'Curator's Choice' in the dark grey box above.
Curator's Comment
Katharine Holmes is an outstanding painter and interpreter of the northern British landscape. I have known her pictures well since I997 when I produced the first publication about her life and work. She was born in Malhamdale in the Yorkshire Dales, where she now lives and works.
She sketches and paints out of doors in all seasons, weathers and times of day producing energetic, atmospheric pictures which express her physical and emotional engagement with a dramatic landscape she has known all her life.
She works with brushes, palette knives and rags, uses water, sand and grit from the rivers, and includes grasses from the land in her work. She uses some of the landscape sketches she makes out in the open as studies for larger paintings on canvas done in her studio.
Her paintings are instinctive responses to the ever-changing weather, light and textures of the landscape. She experiences and understands a familiar landscape in all its variety, shifting moods and changing colours.
In this picture Katharine Holmes paints a spring day. The cool fresh light breaking through the sky and the mists below dissolving the forms of the hills, are beautifully described.
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