CLYDE HOLMES
HOME
CONTACT US
GALLERY
LINKS
POETRY
CV
Virtual Visit to Cwm Hesgin 

Forthcoming Exhibitions

Watermarks
comparing lakes of Finland with lakes of North Wales


Touring exhibition 2006/7
Wales London Helsinki

 

  British Landscape Painter / Poet
 

 

Cloudslope 2002
oil
63 x 123 cms


Clyde Holmes has exhibited widely in England, Wales and Europe and has work in public and private collections here and abroad. He was born in London and studied fine art at Hornsey College of Art and St Martin's School of Art 1965-68. Clyde's work featured in 'Visions of Snowdonia' series, narrated by Sir Anthony Hopkins, BBC2 1997.

My painting is concerned with expressing the mystery and power of the wilder aspects of the landscape which we're all part of - there's no difference between nature outside us and nature inside us. In my exhibitions I bring together (in a variety of ways) the two halves of my work, poetry and painting. In my painting I've been attempting to express the silent dialogue between light and dark. We all live somewhere between lightness and darkness. Constable said that landscape was just another word for feeling. I'm trying to communicate these mood swings of the 'uplandscapes' of Snowdonia through cloud-shadow flaring, wavering, interfolding and gesturing - the rhythms informing the shapes on the slopes. The uplands are full of wind and light working off one another, a constant flux of light and shadow.

 

CV HOME CONTACT US LINKS GALLERY POETRY