Holly Ann Friesen
Holly Ann Friesen is a contemporary painter based in Kenora, Northwestern Ontario. She creates abstract landscapes by focusing on sky, forest and water – and the space around them.
Holly Ann Friesen - Nature's Essence
His date and place of birth
Holly Ann Friesen is a contemporary painter based in Kenora, Northwestern Ontario.
His education, his career
From her childhood in Manitoba, where she grew up on a farm in the Red River Valley, nature has always held a great fascination for Holly Ann. Before turning to the arts, she began her professional career as a research scientist in the field of plant genetics, a discipline requiring creativity, rigor and the examination of concepts in the abstract. She now applies these concepts to her artistic practice where subjects are examined at the micro and macroscopic levels to arrive at the overall imagery. "There's a different experience to looking at the natural world, just like a painting, up close and from further afield."
Since 2010, she has presented her works in galleries and has participated in numerous exhibitions across Canada.
His work, his art
Holly Ann Friesen creates abstract landscapes focusing on sky, forest and water – and the space around them.
Her artistic practice is about taking the familiar and creating something new in abstraction while maintaining a connection to the original object. His goal is to create an emotional connection with the subject, particularly by focusing on the negative space in his initial concept. As such, light proves to be a fascinating point of reference in his works where the plant world abounds.
“I use color and form to examine light and perspective in abstraction. I like to take a familiar subject and create something new. eye sees first."
Strongly rooted in his environment, his work bears the imprint of his adopted region, even of the Canadian Shield as a whole; "This landscape is an endless source of inspiration...it's a mix of rocks, lakes, trees and grand skies that remind me of my childhood on the prairies."
In her recognizable and unique works, Holly Ann Friesen seeks to share her singular experience of the natural world and to draw the viewer in her wake, in search of an oasis or an elsewhere to discover. As such, the public is invited to examine his works sometimes with hindsight, sometimes without, in order to feel their full expression, access the unknown and discover the subject with a unique perspective.
Holly Ann Friesen has been represented by the Au P'tit Bonheur Art Gallery since July 2021.
Holly Ann Friesen is a contemporary painter based in Kenora, Northwestern Ontario.
His education, his career
From her childhood in Manitoba, where she grew up on a farm in the Red River Valley, nature has always held a great fascination for Holly Ann. Before turning to the arts, she began her professional career as a research scientist in the field of plant genetics, a discipline requiring creativity, rigor and the examination of concepts in the abstract. She now applies these concepts to her artistic practice where subjects are examined at the micro and macroscopic levels to arrive at the overall imagery. "There's a different experience to looking at the natural world, just like a painting, up close and from further afield."
Since 2010, she has presented her works in galleries and has participated in numerous exhibitions across Canada.
His work, his art
Holly Ann Friesen creates abstract landscapes focusing on sky, forest and water – and the space around them.
Her artistic practice is about taking the familiar and creating something new in abstraction while maintaining a connection to the original object. His goal is to create an emotional connection with the subject, particularly by focusing on the negative space in his initial concept. As such, light proves to be a fascinating point of reference in his works where the plant world abounds.
“I use color and form to examine light and perspective in abstraction. I like to take a familiar subject and create something new. eye sees first."
Strongly rooted in his environment, his work bears the imprint of his adopted region, even of the Canadian Shield as a whole; "This landscape is an endless source of inspiration...it's a mix of rocks, lakes, trees and grand skies that remind me of my childhood on the prairies."
In her recognizable and unique works, Holly Ann Friesen seeks to share her singular experience of the natural world and to draw the viewer in her wake, in search of an oasis or an elsewhere to discover. As such, the public is invited to examine his works sometimes with hindsight, sometimes without, in order to feel their full expression, access the unknown and discover the subject with a unique perspective.
Holly Ann Friesen has been represented by the Au P'tit Bonheur Art Gallery since July 2021.
