Angela Holyoak

Biography

Exhibitions - Gallery Guide Links
Exhibitions - Full Listings
~		Solo Exhibitions
2003		The Camelford Gallery, Camelford,Cornwall
2001		Nine Days of Art. Open studio. Devon
2000		Nine Days of Art. The Barn Gallery,Ashburton, Devon
~		Group Exhibitions
2005		The Art Bar Live, Higher Ashton, Exeter
2004 - 5		Coombe Farm Gallery, Dittisham, Devon
2004 - 5		Vitreous Gallery, Truro
2004		The Goldfish Bowl, Penzance
2004		Lotus Gallery, Bath
2003 - 4		The Art Farm, Stokeinteignhead, Devon
2002 - 3		Harbour House, Kingsbridge, Devon
2002 - 3		Hind Street Gallery, Ottery St. Mary, Devon
2001 - 3		Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh, Hampshire
2003		Gallery 22 Ashburton
2002		Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London
2002		Chapel Gallery, Saltram House, Plymouth, Devon
1999 -2003		C. Visual Arts Festival, Spanish Barn, Torquay, Devon
2000 - 2		Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, Devon
2001		Millfield Summer Show, Atkinson Gallery,Strete, Somerset
2001		Degree Show, University of Plymouth, Exeter
2000		Black Swan Guild, Frome, Somerset
1999 - 2000		Abbotsbury Studios, Abbotsbury, Dorset
1999		Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth, Devon
1999		Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. Autumn Exhibition
1998 - 2000		East Street Gallery, Ashburton, Devon
~		Residencies
2003 - 5		Cill Rialaig International Artists' Retreat, Co. Kerry, Ireland
2002 -5		Brison's Veor Women Artists' Retreat, Cape Cornwall, Cornwall

Statement

Artist's Statement

This artist's work is in direct response to the physicality,colour and movement of nature, in which she sees the curves of human form. She often works with layers of transparent oil paint, almost like a performance, adding and wiping off, veiling and unveiling an image and constantly restructuring form. Marks are kept from previous layers; these are constantly keeping the painting alive. Like Jackson Pollock, she is the figure within the painting, constantly searching to attain a certain kind of communication between the elements in the painting and herself. This can be an immensely exciting experience and equally daunting. Paintings constantly evolve until finally, they are completed. She is drawn to ancient sites and the effect of earth energy that runs through them. These can be found in far west Cornwall, The Outer Hebrides and the Western coast of Ireland, especially Co.Kerry. These are some of the last wilderness areas where the elements of the landscape have remained relatively untouched by the hand of man for thousands of years. Here the Atlantic light draws like a magnet, obliterating the greyness of civilisation.