HOLLY McLACHLAN

SITE 09

I am an artist based in Fareham who uses painting and performance as my creative expressions. Despite my BTEC in Art and Design, I do consider myself to be self-taught. I have been drawing with whatever I can find from a very young age and only made the transition into painting during this BTEC.

I quickly gravitated towards impressionism, expressionism and pop art and was enamoured by artists such as David Hockey, who presented me with a way of painting landscapes with such energy and vibrancy. This began my journey into chasing colour, the bold and the exciting.

Over the last five years, I have taken inspiration from NASA’s missions to Jupiter, particularly the groundbreaking images released from Mission: JUNO which captures the brilliance of the planet's poles. This series for POSE 2025 is my first collection but will not likely be my last!