https://www.juliedyerholmes.com | @juliedyerholmes2
Since 2021, Julie Dyer Holmes has camped, kayaked, hiked and painted along the east coast of the United States and Canada. Her inspiration includes the beaches of North Carolina, rugged coasts of New England and the boreal forests of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, Canada.
She seeks to capture the sights and sounds of nature in gouache paintings while on the road. As she paints outdoors, she navigates all the elements nature offers: ever changing light, atmosphere, sun, clouds, salty sea air, birds calling, wind, and more. Then, when she then returns to her studio in Raleigh, NC, she paints oil paintings inspired by these places. Her approach includes using the road trip paintings, photos, intuition, imagination and memory as her guide.
As the seasons change and summer moves to fall and winter, her painting practice changes too. She loves painting from imagination and in real life. What does that mean? When you visit her studio you will see paintings of clouds, woods, the ocean, leaves and more. You will also see still life paintings packed with references to her northern roots and deep grounding here in the south.
Her hope? To paint and show you the fleeting joy she feels as well as our connection to nature and each other.
