Read my chat with Artery, New York, about the January 2021 show http://arterynyc.com/2021/01/12/spotlight-gillian-holding/

It's official. Back to Stay At Home and Avoid Non-Essential Travel. Having cleared the studio after the Artifact show work left for New...

Showing at Artifact, 84 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002 from 13 January 2021 Sometimes the figure is truly lost and barely found...

One of the paintings showing at Artifact, 84 Orchard Street, New York from 13 January 2021 Painting process for me is about finding...

Submission to uncertainty 2019 Oil on paper laid on canvas, 150cm x120cm x 2.5cm Allegory hasn’t had an easy run in the visual art world...

There's no substitute for making art. You can kid yourself that reading, writing and thinking are all a vital part of the process but...

I’m well over halfway into a month long residency at East Street Arts. It’s completely open-ended; a chance to explore my practice and...

Since returning from Florida, I’ve changed a fair few aspects of studio organisation and practice. In terms of studio set up, it’s...

I’ve been thinking about making art and “practicing” art in every sense of the word for as long as I can remember, but I’ve never tapped...

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it means to make (attempt) critically engaged painting. If not painting for the sake of...

backs or fronts A perfect day. 1. I really really like the “backs” of these paintings which is good because if I hate the fronts when I...

work in progress (detail) Celestial Suburbia (Chapeltown) Can’t decide if progress is slow, fast, on schedule or behind. All that can be...

surrendering to process I was talking with a fellow studio holder yesterday about controlling process, and surrendering to process. It’s...

schematic layouts Procrastination takes many forms. The outside world mutters about it as though it’s a bad thing: but procrastination...

experiments with media I thought I had one of those eureka moments yesterday. I thought I’d found the perfect medium to work directly...

studio floor study Apart from walking the streets of Chapeltown, Harehills and Scott Hall yesterday drawing streets of suburbia and...

ideas phase Sunday pack down. Monday tidy day. Tuesday back to serious brainstorming and drawing and activity. Blake’s Jerusalem. Weirdly...

No real surprise there. Moving up in scale never allows for replication of the studies, and effectively it’s all still a work in...

The result was I finally put down the brush at 11pm. Since this is not the summer soltice, it meant I was painting in the dark. Add the...