Internal Landscapes is an undulating weather report of life. It portrays a balanced environment that enjoys the full spectrum of seasons. Seasons are observed as parallels of an internal and external experience. Thoughts are merely suggested in the titles, implying enveloping moments that mimic elemental events and vice versa.

Holly’s application of colour is refreshingly, excitingly bold. The paintings are vibrant and charged, depicting starkly different states of being that are at once relatable, memorable and fleeting. Holly’s painting style is deliberate and unrestrained, with the actual flow of mark making quite apparent within the individual work. Layers upon layers of paint add tangible peaks and craters, displaying remarkable depth that is deeply immersive and, despite the high frenetic energy under which they were created, meditative.

Internal Landscapes documents the symbiosis between interior thought and surrounding environment, oscillating between the two and blending them thoroughly into a harmonious whole.

“It’s the age at which you begin to notice how strange time is, how it repeats and returns, how the group you travel with is inexorably diminished. On you go, go you must, bound feet moving on damp ground. The weather isn’t looking good, time’s running out, a shrapnel of light falls whitely on the birch.”

- Olivia Liaing

‘This series represents a shift in my approach to painting where the pictorial elements of paint viscosity, colour, illusion of space and the mark as an expression have become more important than the depiction of a subject’s reality. I have realised that these qualities are subjects in themselves and they challenge me on a subconscious and intuitive level. The process of painting is of utmost importance and drives the painting from start to finish.’

Holly Zandbergen, Internal Landscapes

Rosie BristedGallery Director

Show runs from 6th August - 29th August

Astor Bristed Gallery

3/54 Buckingham Street
Arrowtown 9302