ABOUT
Holly Hutchison has always created paintings in her head. Visual art was a love and focus in her early adult life and she studied at the Ontario College of Art (now OCADU), graduating from Design (textiles) in 1985. After working for 6 years curating for a public art gallery, she left the art world and built a career in editing, writing, and marketing.
In 2018, the re-emerging desire to create called to her and Holly started working with collage and then began to paint. For her, it’s a meditation. She says, “I laugh when I describe my painting experience as being in the zone or achieving flow, because it sounds so cliché, but it’s through painting that I slide into another space, live in a parallel world, let everything about day-to-day life slide away to create other realities.”
A reoccurring theme in Holly’s work is what’s behind the veil, the thought, the surface, the impression … history, mystery, stories told and untold.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Carole Finn OSA painting instruction, 2018-2019
Haliburton School of Art & Design, course work 2018-2019
Trent University, BA (English/history), course work 1995-1997
Ontario College of Art, AOCA (design) 1985
Group Exhibitions
2022 Colour & Form Society "Reflection: Our Roots & Our Times", Brampton ON
2022 Rails End Gallery & Arts Centre "POV" Members' Exhibition, Haliburton ON
2021 Colour & Form Society Open Juried Exhibition - Honourable Mention
2021 Rails End Gallery & Arts Centre Members’ Exhibition, Haliburton ON
2020 Colour & Form Society Bi-Annual Exhibition
2020 Federation of Canadian Artists – “Limitless” Juried Exhibition
2020 Ontario Society of Artists (OSA) Emerging Artist Exhibition, Oakville ON
2020 Rails End Gallery & Arts Centre Members’ Exhibition, Haliburton ON
2019 Rails End Gallery & Arts Centre Members’ Exhibition, Haliburton ON
Small Group Exhibitions
2019 Carole Finn Gallery, Haliburton ON
2018 Carole Finn Gallery, Haliburton ON
Collections
Private Collection, Cambridge ON
Private Collections, Haliburton ON (multiple)
Private Collection, Pickering ON
Private Collections, Toronto ON (multiple)
Associations & Memberships
Colour & Form Society Elected Member
Arts Council Haliburton County
Rails End Gallery & Arts Centre
Federation of Canadian Artists
Founding Member, Art Squared (Haliburton County)