Holly Edwards

Blue Jay I – Study, 2022, mixed media collage on board
About the Artist:
Holly Edwards is a self-taught visual artist from Lakefield who explores painting, and mixed media collage. She studied Philosophy at McMaster University and has pursued the arts her whole life, studying print making techniques, and expanding her practice by taking courses at The Haliburton School of the Arts in workshops with other artists. Holly uses various printmaking techniques to create collage papers, including monoprint, Suminigashi, and linocut, then applying those papers over a painted underlayer. Her collages have been featured in multiple print publications, including the Toronto Star, and the Paris Collage Collective.
Holly has completed two artist residencies and has participated in numerous group and juried shows in addition to several solo art shows. Galleries where she has shown her work include the Art Gallery of Peterborough, Art Gallery of Bancroft, Station Gallery (Whitby), Clarington Art Centre, Northumberland Gallery, John. B Aird Gallery (Toronto), Gallery 1313 (Toronto), Propellor Art Gallery (Toronto), Agnes Jamieson Gallery (Minden), Colborne Gallery (Fenelon Falls), the Japanese Paper Place (Etobicoke), Kawartha Art Gallery (Lindsay), ACME Art and Sailboat Company, and Ludmila Gallery (Peterborough).

Studio: interior of Holly Edward’s studio
Exhibitions
Stephanie Ford Forrester, Northland Harmony, 2022 textile, painted cotton & batiks
Selections: 39th Annual Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour
Jul 8, 2023 to Oct 1, 2023
Jenny Kastner, Haze, acrylic on canvas
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Oct 8, 2022 to Nov 6, 2022
Miguel Hernandez Autorino, Why I Left, 2022, oil on canvas KAST 2022 Selections Exhibition
Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour: Selections
Jul 9, 2022 to Oct 2, 2022
Bronson Smith - All about Art Online Auction 2021
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Oct 21, 2021 to Nov 21, 2021
Jane LowBeer, String Theory, 2015, monotype on paper, 22" x 28"
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Oct 8, 2020 to Nov 8, 2020
Left: Leanne Baird, Forest Light, 2020, acrylic on canvas; Right: Victoria Wallace, Silhouette Series: #10, 12, 20, 21, 2019, encaustic, ink and oil pastel
Selections: 36th Annual Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour Exhibition
Aug 20, 2020 to Nov 8, 2020
Peer Christensen, Park & Lansdowne St., Peterborough, oil on canvas, 2019
Selections: 35th Annual Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour
Jun 29, 2019 to Sep 22, 2019