Artist Bio

Having grown up in rural South Texas, Holly developed her love of the natural world on countless rides into the wilderness on her horse.  She would spend hours exploring endless pastures and acres around her childhood home and tromping around in her cowboy boots from sun up to sun down.  She moved to California to attend college where she received her B.S. and M.S. degrees and developed and ran a family business with her late husband while also becoming a mother of three sons. She picked up a camera years ago to photograph her children and hasn’t looked back.  A self-taught photographer, her perception of the natural world is captured in compositions that invoke the feeling of being in a special place.  Her favorite US destinations include Grand Teton National Park, Yellowstone and Yosemite and she has enjoyed international trips to Nepal, Peru, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Europe, Iceland and Southeast Asia in the last several years.She calls Central Oregon her home because here, she is surrounded by the beauty that inspires her every day to get up to capture more outstanding images.  Her work has been featured several times by National Geographic and has won recognition from the National Parks Service and Grand Teton National Park.