HOLLY BRANDRICK

Holly Brandrick (b.1998) is a visual artist based in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. 

Primarily working in oil paint, her paintings begin as vague organic shapes which over time, through stippled and scumbled layers, images emerge, get concealed, become new images and so on. With drawing being an integral part of the process, there is a continuous exchange between sketchbook and canvas where images and ideas are thrown back and forth, each medium bringing something new to react and adapt to. 

From growing up on a farm to now living in the middle of a forest, Brandrick’s imagined compositions often include recurring motifs and patterns drawn from the natural environment; providing personal symbolism as well as implying the shared world between paintings. At times referencing the figure, others not, her reactive-driven practice is an organic exploration of her human experience and often stumbles into themes of growth, protection and mourning, whilst creating a sense of fragility between states of contentment and anxiety.