Debra Holt’s selection of art works includes installations, paintings, photography and sculptures. The artist’s passion and inspiration within her art depends upon the abstract elements in nature. Her work evokes various moods and emotions through the harmony of texture, form, color and space.

The power of Holt's INSTALLATIONS is the balance of the relationship between her creative energy that gave birth to the art and the properties of the paint and wood that suspends her art in time and space.  With titles like "Whimsy", "Living Water", and “Where there is Sorrow, There is Holy Ground”, Holt’s work presents the viewer with sacred objects that function as spiritual conduits. With hidden meanings and spiritual symbols, her organic wood installations highlight the surface rhythms and textures unique within each piece. The installation entitled "Living Water" is a wall and floor installation constructed of four wooden panels that form a golden halo. The four parts come together to create a cross in the negative space pointing to the fact that Holt's work is as much about what is invisible as is visible.  Holt's art is a means of opening herself up to the viewer. Her installations physically embrace the viewer within the space. The viewer is taken though the works' levels of construction, challenged in unexpected ways to adapt to the subtleties of the work.

The PAINTINGS, which can dominate the viewer in their scale, nevertheless have such a sensuous touch that makes the viewer want to draw near. She masterfully engages the viewer through large-scale works, each with sensuous detail and color. Energetic and dynamic, Debra Holt creates a harmony between light and color giving her works an internal glow. As captivating as a whisper, the viewer draws near.  Her work conveys a sense of warmth and welcoming that is generated by an inner light. The captivating effect draws the viewer towards the work and into a mystical world. Within the intimacy of the work, there is a mysterious connection between the viewer's curiosity and the creative spirit of the artist.

Debra Holt’s recent PHOTOGRAPHY captures the harmony found within the elements in nature.  The large scale nature photographs lure the viewer to be enlightened and in tuned with nature’s magical elements and moments. Both nature’s fleeting moments and stillness are captured engaging the viewer to experience the secrets of nature’s harmony that are so often taken for granted.

Her SCULPTURES generate a harmony between simplicity, form, and composition.  Various metals are used to express a natural harmony with the sculptures form and surroundings.  The sculptures are created so viewers could interact within the space of the sculptures composition and nature’s surroundings.

The art works are particularly engaging because her voice is clear and delicate. Her art works speak to the viewer with a multitude of whispers like voices in the rustling of leaves or the braking of water on the shore. What Holt says with this gentle voice is, however, startling. Holt's work presents the viewer with a wide range of emotions from delight, hope and fear and in tune to the elements of grace around us.

DEBRA HOLT

Post Office Box 370749, Miami, Florida 33137-0749
Telephone: (305) 261-7619