How I Accidentally Created a Fairy Tale
Every fairy tale needs a villain. In this story, however, the villain has already surrendered. And he did it old school. Continue reading How I Accidentally Created a Fairy Tale
Every fairy tale needs a villain. In this story, however, the villain has already surrendered. And he did it old school. Continue reading How I Accidentally Created a Fairy Tale
Title: Duck-trometer 5000 Medium: SculptureDescription:Based on quack science, this piece features a suspended rubber duck ready to take flight when the base is set in motion. Is it quackery if it succeeds in making you smile? This piece of absurdity … Continue reading Duck-trometer 5000
I started scouting dying department stores at the beginning of 2025. I realized with my first model, Miss Ethel Gladys Antoinette Dubois busy at her modeling gigs, I’d need more models.
Macy’s Department store in Fairview was closing. Tore and I had to make multiple trips because it takes time for the mannequins to be available for purchase. And when they were it was a frenzy of excitement (at least for me). Continue reading Behind the Scenes – Model Casting Call
Title: Miss Macy Dons Paper Hole Punch Couture
Artist: Denise Holguin
Materials: Hole punched paper, wire
Artist Statement: Progress on this artwork felt like a drop in the ocean. Insurmountable. Over-whelming. Never-ending. But just as in life, every “dot” of effort counts toward the final goal. Continue reading Miss Macy Dons Paper Hole Punch Couture
I like to show how moments, people and objects are intertwined with each other in my artwork.
Find out details about this LIVE plant in a rotary phone. Continue reading Nature is Calling
New artwork on display at the Lewisville Grand Theater!
Title: A Place to Reflect
Medium: Assemblage
Exhibition: Power of the Flower
Exhibition Dates: March 1 – March 29 Continue reading A Place to Reflect: Broken bowl in parking lot becomes art in Power of the Flower exhibition
As many of you know, I’m a member of the Visual Art League of Lewisville. When I joined roughly 3 years ago I was a complete stranger yet I was quickly welcomed into the group. It took me decades to finally find “my people.”
Diane Wright, the President at the time, quickly recruited me to volunteer. Jerry McKay (JAM), the treasurer and part of the welcome wagon, explained the process of submitting art. This got me on the fast track to actively participate. Continue reading North Texas Giving Day – Visual Art League of Lewisville
When we are born, we have the future ahead of us and it is full of opportunity. At this starting point, I imagine the photo properly framed and in pristine condition. But time marches on. We grow, we age, and eventually the pristine photo becomes tattered as it fades, creases and eventually falls out of the frame.
We want so much to be remembered while on this earth (as suggested with the handwritten “Remember Me” in the frame). But even this photo that was once treasured by someone, has no names, dates or locations on the back – nothing to denote who the people are, where they are from, etc. Instead of being remembered, we are eventually forgotten. Continue reading Honorable Mention: Mother & Child
My newest art piece is on display at the Lewisville Grand Theater.
Title: Family Dynamics
Medium: Branches, thread
Description: The twisted branches and thread that runs through them represent the roles, relationships and interactions within an extended family. Continue reading Family Dynamics