Her style combines natural settings, birds, animals, and of course, sailboats. Her objective is to focus on deceptively simple forms that personify her love of nature - illuminating their classic beauty in an evocative, poetic and peaceful yet compelling composition and palette. Her paintings strive to present in tangible form the beauty and imaginativeness of that which is "childlike".
In many ways, her art reflects her reality. Along with being an artist, this wife and full-time mother works her painting time in and around the daily challenges that accompany her children: two boys, age 8 and 3, and a 2-year-old girl. Each day is a self-described "study in the magical, mystical experience of ‘mommying’", an exercise in wonder, raw energy and yes, occasional mayhem.
Holmes takes great care fashioning her reproductions. She employs a state-of-the-art system that creates limited editions using special pigmented inks. The results are spectacular: vibrant reproductions, individually produced by hand on museum quality paper.
Her work is sold through select galleries.