Holly Eva

My name is Holly Eva.I am named after a beach in Hawaii called Haliewa from my surfer dad Butch and mum loved it too. I am a full time artist living on the coal coast of Wollongong.

Creating art as a contemporary expressionist intuitive painter has been my life for the past 18 years after completing my Diploma of Fine Arts in 2005.

My work distinctively celebrates colour and marks, then I somehow try to calm things down almost like I'm trying to make some kind of sense out of the messy chaos I have created.

Working under brilliant Australian artists has been a career highlight, and include
Amanda Penrose Hart, Idris Murphy, Jo Bertini, Elisabeth Cummings and Ross Laurie. I am also very influenced by Ken Done.

Currently,I’m working with Jumbled in Orange and also Gallery Alchemy in Milton.

Each and every day I wake up, head to the studio and get covered in paint. I don't fully understand why this career has called me, but it sure is a definite calling.

Art has become almost like an addiction, the desire to become a better painter is why I turn up in my studio five to six days per week, eight to ten hours of painting daily.. There is some sort of delight in the humiliation of painting that challenges me.

What do I love doing?...

3 years of art school a million years ago, full time for the past 19 years.

Latest exhibition will be with toaf 3-6th of October
Balmain cruise terminal Sydney Australia. 2024