Larissa Hollis
Larissa Hollis is a South African artist who moved to London in 2023. She is an oil painter who chooses to paint whatever exists within her space.
After graduating with a BFA in Painting from Rhodes University, South Africa, in 1999, Larissa spent the next 20 years working in the film industry as a visual effects artist, VFX director and film director. During this time, she lived and worked in South Africa, the UK and the USA.
She returned to painting in 2020, completing a Postgraduate Diploma in Painting at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. In 2022, she began an MA at Falmouth University, later converting it to a Postgraduate Diploma following her relocation to the UK.
Larissa paints in oils and uses her work to make sense of Apartheid, power, gender, war and nature. Colour value is central to her practice. She is fascinated by the exponential possibilities and conundrums of colour, which shape her process and approach to painting.
By LARISSA HOLLIS
Medium and support: oil on canvas
Dimensions (height x width): 45 × 60 cm
Unframed
This series of Bakoven Skies is painted from Larissa’s studio window in Cape Town, South Africa. Bakoven is the land of her son and the geography of her heart.
Bakoven is named after a weathered outcrop of rock in the bay that resembles a bake oven. The skies change dramatically throughout the day and reflect the changing seasons.
Mid summer.
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By CRISTINA LORENZET
Medium and support: ceramic
Dimensions: 12 x 10 x 12 cm
White stoneware and porcelain object, textured using dry legumes, and decorated with metal oxides and a white satin glaze.
By CRISTINA LORENZET
Medium and support: ceramic
Dimensions: 20 x 35 x 7 cm
An industrial winter landscape inspired by a walk in the Black Mountains in Wales. White stoneware decorated with white porcelain slip and blue oxide. To be hung on a wall.
By LARISSA HOLLIS
Medium and support: oil on canvas
Dimensions (height x width): 45 × 60 cm
Unframed
This series of Bakoven Skies is painted from Larissa’s studio window in Cape Town, South Africa. Bakoven is the land of her son and the geography of her heart.
Bakoven is named after a weathered outcrop of rock in the bay that resembles a bake oven. The skies change dramatically throughout the day and reflect the changing seasons.