Holly Downing Art
Holly Downing is a painter and printmaker, who has been making mezzotint engravings since the 1970s. She studied painting and printmaking at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Royal College of Art, London. She lived in the UK for 6 years, where she received a National Endowment grant to research and make mezzotints. Her paintings and mezzotints have been exhibited in solo exhibitions in London, Edinburgh, Manila, Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz and Berkeley. Her work is in many museum collections including the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum and the Bibliothèque nationale. Images of her work are included in The Mezzotint: History and Technique, by Carol Wax (Abrams; N.Y. 1990); Holly Downing: Twenty-five Years of Mezzotints, (2001; Penumbrae); Holly Downing: Mezzotints and Paintings and Fresno Art Museum in California (2010).
1980s Contemporary Holly Downing Art
Mezzotint
2010s Contemporary Holly Downing Art
Paper, Giclée
1960s Contemporary Holly Downing Art
Mezzotint
1980s Contemporary Holly Downing Art
Lithograph
1980s Contemporary Holly Downing Art
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
1970s Modern Holly Downing Art
Drypoint, Aquatint
1980s Contemporary Holly Downing Art
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
1980s Contemporary Holly Downing Art
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
1980s Contemporary Holly Downing Art
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Early 2000s Contemporary Holly Downing Art
Giclée
Early 2000s Contemporary Holly Downing Art
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Holly Downing Art
Screen
1970s Modern Holly Downing Art
Drypoint, Aquatint