More About the Artist
After years of studying, painting, and teaching in the traditional western style of art (landscapes, portraits, plein aire painting, cityscapes, abstracts) Holly found herself increasingly drawn to study and depiction of traditional art in older sacred traditions.
In 2005, pursuing a lifelong feeling of connection to Tibetan culture, she went to India and lived in the Tibetan community in Dharamsala, working in an art program with Tibetan refugee children.
Her initial exposure to the vast array of Tibetan sacred art, primarily thangkas, piqued her interest and led her to further explore this tradition. In 2017 she moved to India and studied with Tibetan Thangka Master Locho in his studio in Dharamsala. While learning to paint these traditional Tibetan Buddhist artworks, she studied many of the detailed techniques, meanings, and symbols of the tradition.
Back in the US, Holly also continues her study of other kinds of traditional art as expressed in earliest Christian artworks, through Eastern Orthodox icons.
Studying with a Russian trained sacred icon painter, she continues to explore this beautiful old art, also unchanged over time as to proportions and symbolism of gesture and color.
