Holly Patton Shull

Exhibited at Lycoming Arts Gallery October 2024

I knew from the time I was twelve when I walked into my uncle’s painting studio, that I loved oils.  I did not have the courage to pick up the brush until my mid-forties and have not been able to put it down since.  Maybe I had to wait that long before I had something to say that suited this very old art form.  People often ask what I like to paint.  I am driven to paint of humanity…the human condition.  The face, the body, emotions and spirituality.  It turns me on to explore, through the beautiful colors, what goes on around and inside of us.  The process continues to amaze me.

I grew up in an artistic family.  My father was an animator for Disney and Warner Brothers in the late 30’s and 40’s.  His oldest brother a painter.  My sister is an accomplished illustrator and photographer; a cousin in St. Augustine is also a prolific painter. I studied art in college and was primarily an illustrator until my first oil painting. I have studied painting under the care of many accomplished artists over the last twenty some years.