Original artwork description:

Extra large expressive and gestural painting inspired by the transition from Impressionism to Expressionism.

"Deep Waters "2024 is a new painting from my series "Expressions of Depth"

"Lilia Orlova-Holmes rejects the consciousness of expression, the self-aware beautifying of a base phenomenon of nature. There can be no thought of prettiness, of creating an object tuned towards sensibility. There can only be expression’s own desperate grasp outwards. Expression itself has no care for what it expresses or who it expresses to. It is only the fact of self-transcendence: the tendency of being to go beyond itself. It becomes deeper, thicker, a growing mass of tendrils and vines. Lilia Orlova-Holmes’ waterlilies reject anything other than the fact of expression as it is embodied in nature: flaring up from dark roots whose origins are obscure. The tone is colossal, a swarm of purple intensities and evergreen surfaces. There can be no implication of a movement beyond. Focus cannot divert itself to the horizon. Instead, it is drawn ever deeper into life’s indiscernible act"
from the
Ester Hipponax's article about the series.

Oil on linen.
The painting is unstretched and shipped rolled in the tube.

Suggested dimensions for stretching: 170x190cm.
The canvas size is 190x210cm. ( 5 cm. On each side for stretching)




Lilia Orlova-Holmes is a contemporary British painter.
She had a number of solo exhibitions, including A Small Pan of Porridge at the Kings Street Gallery, London (1993), Fruit and Flowers at the Chelsea Gallery, Chelsea Town Hall (2003), Flowers at the Halpern Gallery, Kent (2021), The joy of colours at John Davis Gallery, Cotswolds (2022), Ready for the Spring, The Halpern Gallery, Rochester (2023)
Currently, her works are on show at the exhibition Expressions of Colour in Carden Park, Chester, curated by Grant Ford International Art Advisory.
In addition, her work is in many private collections worldwide.


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Materials used:

oil on canvas

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