From the ongoing series of white flowers on deep verdegris backgrounds exploring the ways in which we live alongside the natural, and how we allow nature to impact how we exist in the climate around us, this piece features a delicate begonia created from images and inspiration collected from planters and balcony boxes in Vancouver in 2024. A close cropped, large scale close up of a delicate white begonia with details in subtle shades of green, against a deep, subtle ombre vert de gris background. Painted using thin glazes of oil paint to build a deep and rich opacity to each petal, the piece resonates with minimal colours and tones, depicting the freshness and beauty of the flower, and enhancing and exaggerating the graphic and geometric vision. The deep vert de gris background elevates the freshness of the white, creating a serene image from the minimal tones.

Dom Holmes

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Dom Holmes is a Queer British Painter and visual artist working and residing in East London. Their work is regularly exhibited across the UK and Europe, and can be found in private and public collections worldwide. Dom’s work reflects an ongoing fascination with the human connection to nature within an urban environment. Their large-scale paintings depict botanical life found in city settings - in particular those found in community planters, public parks, window boxes, households and urban gardenscapes - exploring the value of nature within local communities, and the relevance of seasonal wildlife at the intersection of late-stage capitalism, individualism and climate crisis. With a highly successful career as an internationally renowned tattooer, social historian and mixed-media artist dating back to 2002, Dom’s principal oil painting practice evolved from a period of self-directed study beginning in 2017. Their experiences with counter-culture and non-traditional art forms has shaped their painting work and the ways in which they connect their art with the world around them, drawing inspiration from the under-represented and overlooked. They work in traditional oil painting methods, using minimal materials, specifically using glazes and colour theory to build depth, darkness and intensity of colour with the fewest pigments possible, establishing an environmentally conscious approach to their practice. Their intentional painting technique uses detailed underpaintings, elaborated with multiple layers of glazes to bring the piece to life, with each piece taking weeks to complete. Dom’s works have been shown in notable galleries, exhibitions and fairs worldwide, including Mall Galleries, Free Painters and Sculptors, Tarpey Gallery, Stolen Space, Swanfall Art, The Other Art Fair and Queer Britain. They were Artist in Residence with WOLF Jaipur in Jan-Feb 2026.