ABOUT

Holly Louise Tomlinson is a British born (b. 2003) multidisciplinary artist, though painter best encapsulates her practice. Currently living in Leeds, UK, and studying a BA in Fine Art, her artistic journey is varied, although based in elements of surrealism and the fantastical. Tomlinson's work is a curious glance into unreal, imaginative worlds - a voyage into the oddity of humanity, animals, and existence.

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Tomlinson’s oil paintings are a phantasmagoria of portals into the psycho-surreal. The worlds shown to the audience, invited to glimpse into but not enter, aim to titillate the senses with a barrage of psychedelic colour, flat worldly atmosphere, and most importantly odd scenes of almost human almost animal hybrids engaging in the landscape as though our own world. To live is but a strange, surreal existence - "we are sophisticated fish that learnt to walk."

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"A motivation of mine is to produce artwork that breathes. The imagination breathes life into an oil painted wood panel and a story is created in the mind’s eye. I find myself enamoured with the act of an audience engaging with their imagination."