C. Leigh Holder

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ICONS. In the works...a symbolic series of villains + heroes. The latest freak is an eight-foot painting inspired by Frida Kahlo...

PORTRAITS. Including animal, mineral and human varieties...

LANDSCAPES. From mid-west industrial scenes to west-coast wharfs mostly painted on location.

Icons

Joan of Arc
the only door in is the door out.jpg
George's Lilith
Elijah and the Ravens

"I like to imagine what legendary villains and heroes would look like if we found them today under a city bridge or sitting in a neighborhood park. They'd all be freaks. Time has somehow softened their weirdness and dulled their colors. This series of contemporary paintings attempts to restore their mantle of glory. more to come..."

- C. Leigh Holder

Portraits

Foxx Girls - C Leigh Holder 2011.jpg
Barn Owl - C Leigh Holder
Polar Bears Fighting
West Africa Mirage
Girl in Nightgown
Anna Karenina - C Leigh Holder
Pixel Glam - C Leigh Holder
Woodrow Reading Room
Foxx 2011.jpg

Landscapes

Maine Coast
Laclede Electric Co. and the Mississippi River
Turkish Pavilion SOLD
Power Plant - C Leigh Holder
Broken Spoke
Bangkok Sunset
Mckinney Falls
Lamar Bridge in Winter
Barton Spring Bridge
SOLD - Tunnel in The Hill - SOLD
Lamar Street in the Rain
Sunset on Whidbey Island
Turkish Pavilion in Winter

"When I paint on location, I am looking to express the ethereal quality of a place. The physical dimensions are like iridescent scales that encompasses the greater thing that sits just below the surface of a place. I paint to get at that greater thing."

- C. Leigh Holder

About

C. Leigh Holder uses symbols to explore the themes of beauty, freaks and myth. She's still looking for the rabbit hole. the secret garden and the wardrobe.

Courtney's work has shown in E.A.S.T. (Austin, Texas), the Parlor (New Braunfels, Texas) and in Ventana October 2009 (St. Louis, Missouri). Courtney formally studied figure drawing under Jim MacMullan at the School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York City in 1998. She also studied with artists Tim Allen Lawson and plein air painter George Strickland. Born and raised in Austin, Texas, she's sure to make it back to the city that keeps it weird.

Courtney lives in New Braunfels, Texas with her husband Scott, 2 dogs named Enoch and Rue, and a rabbit named Peter.

pulcher. bonum. veritas.

Courtney Leigh R Holder

Austin, Texas

"Other echoes Inhabit the garden. Shall we follow? Quick, said the bird, find them, find them, Round the corner. Through the first gate, Into our first world, shall we followThe deception of the thrush? Into our first world."

--T. S. Eliot, The Four Quartets

Contact

If you're interested in purchasing a painting or have any questions please contact me.

Location

New Braunfels, Texas

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