Spring of Life Painting

CONTACT INFO: 602.565.7954 Holly Anderson is a self-trained, contemporary abstract painter who currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona. While Holly has been creating art in various forms throughout her life it was not until March of 2011 after recovering from several surgeries due to her debilitating muscular skeletal disease, that she started creating art on a full-time basis. Her work is exhibited via solo exhibition monthly, In several established on-line galleries and featured in private and public collections worldwide. Holly is known as real, natural artist. She has an intuitive mind and eye when it comes to materials, color and form that borders on the spiritual. In each of her pieces you will find composition, abstraction, organic movement, emotion, fluency, texture and light. Most of her paintings and ideas are inspired by yoga, Internal Arts, human emotion, water, and theories of astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist & author, Carl Sagan. In just under a year, over 200 original paintings had been created and sold by the artist herself. Pursuing her passion for knowledge & healing Holly started teaching art workshops and collaborating with other creative professionals. Next she spearheaded a community mural project, assumed the role as Artistic Director for AZ Culture & as a contributing artist on Houzz, won BEST OF HOUZZ 2014-2017. Holly took on multiple projects over the next year with designers creating large scale custom paintings for collectors and series of artwork for commercial firms. Not sure what to do or how to grow next Holly took a year to collaborate with others. such as photographer and architect Luis A. Salazar, Renowned sculptor and Painter Rafael Navarro, Designer Jayme Blue, and up and coming mixed media artists Pato Aguilar, Jessica Speer & Heather Freitas. Many of these collaborative works have been published in magazines, news specials and more. When Holly is not painting she spends her free time volunteering with rescue animals at the Arizona Humane Society, teaches art workshops, enjoys the outdoors and playing instruments. PERSONAL ARTIST STATEMENT People always ask me "what is this"? at my art shows. I have to laugh of course and explain that each piece is truly an escape as i love to experiment with texture, color and really get my hands dirty!. I paint with non-traditional objects and my bare hands.