Biographies > Kathy P. Holland

Kathy Holland works in printmaking drawing, etchings and paintings (Sea Fan Skeleton in the TAG collection). She has also worked as a freelance graphic artist, medical illustrator, muralist and drawing instructor. 

A native of Virginia, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and printmaking in 1978 from the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond VA. She also studied wood-engraving with Blair Hughes-Stanton at the Central School of Art and Design in London, England. From 1979 to 1981 she worked as a printmaker at the Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven CT. She immigrated to Canada in 1986 and for eleven years had a home and studio in Deep River, Ontario. During that time her work was exhibited extensively in solo shows throughout Ontario and in juried shows across the US. She moved to Oak Ridge Tennessee in 1997.

Kathy continues her career as a full-time studio artist and exhibits in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the US. Presently she is an exhibiting member, board member and website manager of the Art Market Gallery in Knoxville. She also teaches drawing and life-drawing classes at the Oak Ridge Art Center and the Knoxville Museum of Art.

Kathy has written, “The landscape has always had a powerful pull on me and has shaped my sensibilities from a very early age all the way through my painting career. Recently I wanted to examine just how I related to the landscape, to challenge myself and take some risks. So I spent two months alone just painting the landscape on location, without photo references, without fellow painters, to see if I had the chops to paint in a more immediate, responsive and improvisational way.”