Martie Holmer's paintings on wood derive from the sculptural works she made throughout the 1980's. These pieces, ranging from the size of a doll to that of a stop sign, were expressively and abstractly figurative, referring to the relationship between inhabitants of the natural world, juxtapositioned with the man-made world. Sometimes these works had a distantly human suggestion, other times a tree or plant. Like our complex world, they interacted as sculptural forms together. From this body of work came the paintings on wood.
Arbor 51"x34" oil on wood 1993
Other examples coming soon