About Angela Holyoak
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.
