paintings

• holly frean

Holly’s subject is the urban crowd.  Whether people are shown massed together in a jostling crowd formation, gathered in small groups in an art gallery, or singled out in a portrait, her paintings are lively observations on human gesture and activity.

Whilst Holly works in the tradition of oil on canvas, she takes her imagery from her own ever-growing collection of photographs and postcards. Her paintings offer a sense of fragmented rhythm, pattern and colour. Often using patched-together drawings and slide projections, her silhouette figures appear and disappear in the materiality of the brushwork.

Following a sell-out degree show at City and Guilds Art School in 2002, Holly has been focusing on painting commissions and exhibiting in London. With a growing number of portrait commissions, Holly moved into her studio in South London in 2004, where she currently works and regularly shows at the studio's bi-annual Open Studios.

Holly’s work sells for £100 - £500 for drawings and £300 - £5000 for paintings. We will be featuring new work from Holly shortly.

Untitled (postcards) 2005, oil on canvas, 70cm x 90cm £1,300.00   Missing persons grid, detail - oil on canvas,120cm x 175cm £1,100.00 sold   Melting crowd , oil on canvas, 115cm x 145cm £1,100.00 sold   Looking at Manet, oil on canvas, 40cm x 40cm £500.00 sold   Three in a room, oil on canvas, 50cm x 50cm, £550.00 sold

Camouflage crowd, oil on canvas, 80cm x 110cm - £1,000.00 sold   Big crowd, oil on canvas, 162cm x 162cm -1,300.00 sold   Missing persons grid, oil on canvas, 120cm x 175cm £ 1,100.00 sold   Twenty first century couple, oil on canvas, 60cm x 60cm £650.00 sold