Laurel Holmes is a Cape Town-based artist exploring themes of fragility and the natural world, drawing inspiration from her coastal surroundings. After leaving the corporate world in 2012, she relocated from Johannesburg to Cape Town in 2016 and studied under renowned South African artists. Working primarily in oil painting, she also explores wax encaustic, mixed media, and printmaking, participating in internships at Warren Editions and workshops at The Artists’ Press. She earned a postgraduate diploma in Fine Art from the University of Cape Town in 2021 and has since exhibited internationally, including at Art Basel Miami in 2022. Her work is held in private and institutional collections, including Spier Arts Trust and the University of Cape Town, and extends into commercial ventures, with a GIF owned by the Smithsonian and the V&A Museum.

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