Lucinda Holmes

Lucinda Holmes explores drawing and diagrammatic forms through an economy of means. Working with pencil, watercolour, gouache, and collaged elements on paper, she creates abstract compositions that oscillate between the systematic and the intuitive.

Holmes' minimalist gestures accumulate into complex fields of meaning, where subtle material qualities and surface textures carry expressive weight. These abstract configurations possess a quietly surreal quality, suggesting fragmented maps, molecular structures, or archaeological traces—capturing something between representation and pure form.

  • making

    Lucinda Holmes develops her work through exploration of pencils, pens, paint building geometric compositions that mirror scientific imagery, and the natural world. Working intuitively yet systematically, she allows each mark to create networks of lines and forms that echo patterns found in botanical structures, molecular diagrams, and statistical representations.

“colour is more powerful when it almost isn’t there”