Laurel Holmes

My creative practice touches on my local environs and internal landscape, attempting to explore and transform emotional and physical experiences into a visual language. In the act of making, these works become a metaphor for this physical world but also for the connectedness and mysticism that exists here.

Immersing oneself in a natural world brings one into the present time: watching a body of water, you see movement and pattern; the beauty of a dead seedhead; a stand of grasses undulating in the wind; an underlying rhythm that one becomes aware of, that reconnects and rekindles an awareness of this rhythm in the space around one - meditative and healing.

The awareness may lead one to the verge of sensing an ephemeral and transient landscape, where universal themes of shadow and light talk about absence and presence.

Laurel is a painter and printmaker based in Cape Town.