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Holly with husband, David

Holly Herron

Media: Oil, Collage, Colored Pencil

Studio: 85

Email: 

hollyherron@hollyherron.com

cat surfing

Audrey the Surfer Cat

Holly currently works out of her studio at Tannery Row Artist Colony in historic downtown Buford, GA. She is a retired educational administrator, and a self-taught artist.

In 2006, soon after retiring, Holly studied with Bet Borgeson, in the colored pencil medium.  Many of her colored pencil works have been sold, but almost all of them can be special ordered as giclee prints. 

Working in colored pencil allowed Holly to sharpen her drawing skills and her knowledge of color, composition, value scales, etc.  Her teacher in this medium was Bet Borgeson.  You can view information about her online courses here.

"I quickly outgrew my small studio at home and was lucky to find a studio to rent at Tannery Row. After several months working in a much larger space, I've decided to concentrate my focus on collage (including encaustic) and oil painting."

She prefers to work intuitively when creating her collages, mixing a variety of media to achieve the desired results. Most of her encaustic collages are on wood panels, providing needed rigid support for this medium.  Each collage has multiple layers of decorative or hand made papers, paint, texures, printed words or letters, and original images.  The botanical theme is carried throughout the collection of collages below.

Other sites featuring Holly Herron's work:

Pentimento Studio (an artist group)

Hollyherron.com

Borgesonstudio.com (all things colored pencil)


metamorphosis

"Metamorphosis"

24 x 24 mixed media collage

on wood panel

collage

"Ode to William Blake"

24 x 36 mixed media collage

on canvas

pears 

"Pears Redux"

12 x 12

mixed media collage

on canvas

lily

"Gilding the Lily "

20 x 20

mixed media collage

on wood

onions

"Onions & Pears"

9 x 12

oil on canvas

butterfly

"Butterfly Effect"

10 x 10 encaustic collage on canvas

tulips

"Temple of Flora After John Robert Thornton"

24 x 36 mixed media collage on canvas

big pear

"Poire Gigantique"

24 x 36

mixed media collage

on wood panel

encaustic

"Madame Butterfly"

24 x 24 encaustic collage

on wood panel

genna

"Genna in Straw Hat"

9 x 12 oil on canvas

arm

"Bras d'homme After Charles Bargue"

sepia pencil on paper

foot

"Pieds de Profil After Charles Bargue"

sepia pencil on paper

hand

"Main de Femme After Charles Bargue"

sepia pencil on paper

epars

"Pears"

9 x 12

oil on canvas

 

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