About the Artist

SKYE HOLLAND - BIO 2026

Skye Holland is a contemporary artist whose practice moves fluidly across painting, drawing and printmaking . Working with visual forms which include observation and photography, she draws from biological systems, ecological thinking and the expression of emotion felt in natural and some urban spaces with mark-making and layering of paint to explore interconnectivity and memory related experiences of time and place. 

Holland received her BA in Painting and Printmaking from Central St. Martins School of Art in 1987 progressing her practice since then with short courses and continual self-learning between employment and raising her family.  

Her recent exhibitions include the ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries 2025 and the Bath Society of Artists Open Exhibition 2025 where she was recently awarded the Judges Prize for her entry.   She also participated in several group shows including the Summer Fayre and Cornucopia, both group shows with Sandra Higgins Art in Bath. Early in 2026, Holland has been selected to participate in the Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London.

Her work has been featured twice in Art Seen magazine, the Bath Magazine, Wiltshire Life, Country Life and is included in the MTN Collection in South Africa.  

Holland currently lives and works in Wiltshire in the UK.

The Fragile Earth Series of circular form paintings including works such as Pink Leopard and Red Rose and Ancestor Moon grew out of marking time with the successive passage of full moons and shifting seasons. The concern about climate change and the science of equilibrium (all things in natural balance to sustain life) are explored in the circular compositions where there is no beginning or end to the composition and elements float in the circular space.  

My printmaking training gives me insight and fascination with texture and surface, the use of Japanese chine-collé building edges and a graphic juxtaposition to some of the forms, creating offset and tension to the compositions (Icarus, On a Wing & A Prayer). I work with liquid pools of pigment in various intensities of saturation. Layering with large brushes e-sumi style (the bleeding of inks).  

I am currently working mainly with oil paints and oil sticks, the richness, softness and plasticity of the medium as well as intensity of colour allow for the complex luminous surface and texture out of which forms and space grow.  Other media include graphite, acrylic, pigment powders and gold leaf which add an alchemic quality to some of the works. I am moving between figuration and abstraction which gives points of reference which then disappear into space. I like that disconnect and the play with things that appear and then dissolve.