Gloria Holden
artist printmaker
Gloria Holden
BA hons (Art and Design)
MA (Education)
Originally from Rochdale, Lancashire and now living in the riverside town of Gravesend in Kent.
I have taught Art and Design in Kent schools for over 30 years and have also led various adult education workshops.
I studied Textile Design at Loughborough College of Art and Design, and have always been fascinated by the patterns and textures found in natural forms and landscapes. Land forms, fossils, insects and seedpods are frequent subjects for my work.
I enjoy exploring qualities of pattern, colour and texture using intaglio printmaking methods, painting, collagraphs and collage.
As a member of the Printmakers Council I exhibit regularly. Examples of my work exist in private and public collections, including the V and A archives and the permanent collection at Scarborough Art gallery..
Exhibitions
"Pushing Boundaries" (PMC)
Dunamaise Arts Centre, Church St, Portlaoise, Co Laouse, Ireland
"Gravesham Arts Collaborative"
Blake Gallery, Woodville Halls, Gravesend
"Impressions" - Victoria Printmakers
St Andrew's Arts Centre, Gravesend
"The Latest Edition"
Linden Hall Studio, Deal, Kent
Solo
Greenwich Picture House, Greenwich High Rd, London SE10 8NN
"In Print: British Landscapes"
Watts Contemporary Gallery
Compton, Surrey GU3 1DQ
"Print City" and PMC "Mini:Print"
Morley Gallery
London SE1 7HT
"Impressions 4"
St Andrew's Arts Centre, Gravesend
"Spit, Scratch and Bite"
Sun Pier House, Chatham
"Memory"
ROSL ARTS
Park Place, St James" St, London, SW1A 1LR
Victoria Printmakers
Strood Community Library, Kent
"Journeys" Printmakers Council
London Print Studio
425 Harrow Rd
London W10 4RE
and Jack House Gallery, Portsmouth
Printmakers' Council "Colour"
ROSL ARTS
London SW1A 1LR
"Time"
Highgate Scientific and Literary Institute
"Land,Sea and Sky"
The Ropewalk Gallery, Barton Upon Humber
"The Last Dream of My Soul"
Rochester Art Gallery
"The Turner Contemporary Open"
Turner Contemporary Gallery, Margate