martha holmes interior & beyond
INTERIOR & BEYOND | 24 th May - 20 th June 2025
Martha Holmes’ new collection brings together the domestic and outdoor spaces that have surrounded and inspired her as a working painter over recent months. In her crisply composed, colourist manner, her paintings reflect spring mornings in the studio, with jugs of fresh tulips and bowls of lemons, captured alongside the linear forms and rich, seasonal colours of the West Cornwall landscape. Painted predominately in oil on board, her interior compositions draw on a varied palette of warm pinks and reds, while her landscape works reflect the fresh greens and vivid blues of the Penwith peninsula in spring.
Inspired by the Cornish masters - Heron, Hepworth, Nicholson and Scott – Martha’s works immerse the viewer in an emotional dialect, born from a deep-rooted connection to the land where she grew up. Abstract in form, often with large flat areas of colour, her work captures a raw and honest sense of the landscape, communicated through colour and expressive mark making. Recently, her work has shifted to exploring the connection between exterior and interior space, informed by the way that objects - vessels, vases of blooms, open books, and existing paintings - paired with the forms of the landscape beyond, inspire paintings with a new spatial dynamic and form.
8 - 10
24 - 26
27 - 28
29 - 30
35 - 37
45 - 46
LIST OF WORKS | Please visit our website for Martha’s complete collection
1. ‘Headland & Sea, Porthmeor I’, 21x30cm / 37.5x46cm framed, oil on board, £550
2. ‘Towards the Island, St Ives’, 50x60cm / 70x80cm framed, oil on board, £1350
3. ‘Porthmeor View from the Island’, 120x50cm / 140x70cm framed, oil on board, £2650
4. ‘Summer Pinks, St Ives’, 30x30cm / 46x46cm framed, oil on board, £595
5. ‘Warm Day, Porthgwidden’, 50x60cm / 70x80cm framed, oil on board, £1350
6. ‘Summer on Porthgwidden’, 120x150cm, unframed, oil on canvas, £3850
7. ‘Spring Tide, Porthmeor’, 100x100cm / 103x103cm framed, oil on linen canvas, £2750
8. ‘Bottles & Blooms’, 21x30cm / 37.5x46cm framed, oil on board, £550
9. ‘Bowls & Blooms II’, 21x30cm / 37.5x46cm framed, oil on board, £550
10. ‘Bowls & Blooms I’, 21x30cm / 37.5x46cm framed, oil on board, £550
11. ‘Summer Table - Tulips, Pears & Bowl’, 125x125cm / 129x129cm framed, oil on canvas, £3500
12. ‘Fun Garden Blooms’, 21x30cm / 37.5x46cm framed, oil on board, £550
13. ‘Tulips & Painting’, 50x70cm / 70x90cm framed, oil on board, £1650
14. ‘Headland & Sea, Porthmeor II’, 21x30cm / 37.5x46cm framed, oil on board, £550
15. ‘Sweeping Tide, Porthmeor’, 50x60cm / 70x80cm framed, oil on board, £1350
16. ‘Summer Headland - View from the Island’, 100x100cm / 103x103cm framed, oil on linen canvas, £2750
17. ‘Pink Tide towards Zennor’, 60x60cm / 80x80cm framed, oil on board, £1450
18. ‘Studio Pears on Pink’, 60x60cm / 80x80cm framed, oil on board, £1450
19. ‘Burst of Blue, Porthmeor’, 30x30cm / 46x46cm framed, oil on board, £595
20. ‘Tulips at Home’, 50x60cm / 70x80cm framed, oil on board, £1350
21. ‘Spring Tulips on Red’, 21x30cm / 37.5x46cm framed, oil on board, £550
22. ‘Eucalyptus in the Studio’, 50x70cm / 70x90cm framed, oil on board, £1650
23. ‘Pink from the Beach Hut’, 30x30cm / 46x46cm framed, oil on board, £595
24. ‘April Morning, Porthgwidden’, 30x30cm / 46x46cm framed, oil on board, £595
25. ‘Ochre Tide, Porthgwidden’, 30x30cm / 46x46cm framed, oil on board, £595
26. ‘Hint of Yellow on the Island’, 30x30cm / 46x46cm framed, oil on board, £595
27. ‘Island Green, St Ives’, 30x21cm / 46x37.5cm framed, oil on board, £550
28. ‘Summer Day from the Beach Hut’, 30x21cm / 46x37.5cm framed, oil on board, £550
29. ‘Ochre Headland, Zennor’, 30x30cm / 46x46cm framed, oil on board, £595
30. ‘Soft Gwithian Pink’, 30x30cm / 46x46cm framed, oil on board, £595
31. ‘Spring Light at the Beach Hut’, 60x60cm / 80x80cm framed, oil on board, £1450
32. ‘Hot Day at the Beach Hut’, 60x60cm / 80x80cm framed, oil on board, £1450
33. ‘Summer Landscape, Zennor’, 120x50cm / 140x70cm framed, oil on board, £2650
34. ‘Early Morning at the Beach Hut’, 50x60cm / 70x80cm framed, oil on board, £1350
35. ‘St Ives Pinks I’, 21x30cm / 37.5x46cm framed, oil on board, £550
36. ‘St Ives Pinks II’, 21x30cm / 37.5x46cm framed, oil on board, £550
37. ‘April Morning, Zennor’, 21x30cm / 37.5x46cm framed, oil on board, £550
38. ‘Pink Tide, Porthgwidden’, 50x60cm / 70x80cm framed, oil on board, £1350
39. ‘Summer Garden Hues at Home’, 100x100cm / 103x103cm framed, oil on linen canvas, £2750
40. ‘Summer Palette’, 80x80cm / 100x100cm framed, oil on board, £2250
41. ‘Spring Landscape, The Island’, 60x60cm / 80x80cm framed, oil on board, £1450
42. ‘Moving Sky Across the Island’, 60x60cm / 80x80cm framed, oil on board, £1450
43. ‘Island Hues, St Ives’, 30x30cm / 46x46cm framed, oil on board, £595
44. ‘Ochre & Green, Zennor’, 30x30cm / 46x46cm framed, oil on board, £595
45. ‘Yellow & Pink, Porthgwidden’, 30x21cm / 46x37.5cm framed, oil on board, £550
46. ‘Spring Day Near the Island, St Ives’, 30x21cm / 46x37.5cm framed, oil on board, £550
47. ‘Soft Porthgwidden Landscape’, 60x60cm / 80x80cm framed, oil on board, £1450
Back cover: ‘Stripy Tulips in the Kitchen’, 20x40cm / 40x60cm framed, oil on board, £595
