Q William Holmes

Born in China, Q was trained in both China and Japan. Her art has evolved from her immersion in the Eastern traditions and, in turn,  from her life in rural Western Massachusetts.  Thus, Q’s artistic vision reaches back in time to vistas of misty mountains and rain-freshened lotuses, yet her New England years have infused her with a second nature of maple-lined roads, lichened stone walls and weathered barns.  Now, as she continues on her path of Zen and Tao (Taoism), her lines get simpler and her brushwork more expressive.

Q’s paintings have been purchased by New Hampshire Art Institute and several Boston hospitals, among others.

—Media: mineral color, acrylic, rice paper, canvas.  The red block prints, square or round, on some paintings are her signatures.

Galleries:

Salmon Falls Art Gallery, Shelburne Falls MA. Hayley Mermelstein LAC, Amherst MA. Sharon Fine Arts, Peterborough NH.

One-Person Exhibits:

Kane Marie Arts Galley (VA).

Sharon Fine Arts Gallery (NH).

Enigma Gallery (with potter); Richter Gallery (VT).

Massachusetts: Canyon Ranch, Lenox; State House, Boston; Hart Gallery (with a potter), Northampton; Elusie Fine Art Gallery, Easthampton; Salmon Falls Art Gallery, Shelburne Falls; Northfield Mount Hermon, Northfield; Thomson Financial Management, Northampton; Art Space of Franklin County, Greenfield; Cooley Dickson Hospital, Northampton; Art Bank, Shelburne Falls; Lathrop Community, Easthampton; Hayley Mermelstein LAC, Amherst.

Teaching:

Smith College—Art Museum, Art Dept., Theater Dept.; Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge MA; University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA

U Mass; Guild Studio School, Northampton MA.