![Marcia Holmes, “Garden Fascination,” pastel and oil, 40 x 30 in., $5200, available through the artist Pastel and oil painting of flowers](https://fineartconnoisseur.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/1_FA_Holmes_Jan22-696x929.jpeg)
Marcia Holmes IAPS EP/MC PSA-MP: Marcia, a committed Pastelist, is drawn to garden venues as a consummate traveler. With a painterly approach, in Garden Fascination, she’s embracing a balance of oil and pastel, highlighting the texture of peony blossoms with a palette knife on a field of lush pastel. This day was a glorious afternoon stroll in Nedra Matteucci Galleries garden in Santa Fe. Shady Lakes Water Lilies II (Albuquerque, NM) and Safely in the Rabbit Hole (NYC-Central Park) display her noted abstract expressionist mark marking at Master level Exhibitions: Pastel Society of America and IAPS 7th Master Division (through June 21, 2022).
Please view more of Marcia’s paintings online:
www.MarciaHolmes.com
www.Instagram.com/marciaholmesart
The Degas Gallery in New Orleans, LA
![Abstract expressionist pastel painting of water lilies](https://fineartconnoisseur.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2_FA_Holmes_Jan22-767x1024.jpeg)
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