Windows are evocative objects. Without someone visible looking through, they can bring about feelings of loneliness and alienation — and that’s what Holly Lombardo’s windows do for me. They appear lonely, detached and abstracted from the whole of the house, and I reach for the perennial allegory of the individual versus the society to account [...]
Must there be something symbolic in watercolors depicting water? I feel almost impelled to find a hidden link – and there isn’t one besides the relation made obvious by the words themselves. Watercolor is not the perfect medium — if there is one — for seascapes and scenes, but, as Holly Lombardo shows us, it [...]
Holly Lombardo is a self-taught American painter and photographer who works in watercolors and acrylics, creating landscapes, still life and suburban scenes. She publishes her artwork on her blog, Painted Paper by Holly, and her photos on another blog, Photo Paper by Holly. Her photographs are interesting not only for themselves: many exhibit compositional features [...]
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