artist - Robert John Holland
Grounding
Well of Life
Robert Holland's father was a well digger, and he taught his son to do the same. If nature was the source of Holland's visual education, water is the element that most informs his facility with materials. Always experimental, almost all of Holland's work shows a fluidity of movement like water. Even the forms of mist and frozen water are evidenced in his surfaces.
An early understanding of the tenuous nature of a water well, and its careful balanced design also informs Holland's view of the world and his place in it. Holland's earliest painting, made with the tools of a paint by numbers out of a necessity to communicate visually, is a painting of a high waterfall which can also be viewed as a water well. The description in this painting is so articulate, that it is well beyond his years and impressively naturalistic.
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