Holly Friesen
Artist in Montreal, Québec, Canada
Holly Friesen
Artist in Montreal, Québec, Canada
My work revolves around earth-honoring images that reflect and instill connection to local bio-regions. These images internalize a reverence for the earth and shift the intent from harming the world to living in a mutually life enhancing manner.
I learn what I need to know by painting. The more I paint the less separation there is between inner and outer ecologies. For me, painting is like deep prayer awakening a reverence for the earth’s inner landscape; the image is in you and you are in the image. Painting is my breath, beauty my compass, and the earth my body.