Holmes has spent over half of her career perfecting her heat-sensitive Aurora color. This variation of Italian Chalcedony glass transforms the earthy tones of the original formula into a rainbow of vivid shades. The beautiful streaks of magenta, red, green and blue inspired her to name her color after the Aurora Borealis, which form beautiful arcs of color across the northern sky. The vibrant colors that the artist brings out in her Aurora sculptures are based on matching the precise chemical formula with a careful method of heating and cooling the glass. Holmes uses this technique to form striations in the glass that fan out across the surface as each piece is spun out, elongated and stretched on the blowpipe. There is a finite window of time for Holmes to sculpt each piece before the hues of color peak and diminish. Once the glass cools it reflects a perpetual sense of movement in the flowing curvature of each edge and in the sweeping strokes of the color.
Every aurora sculpture sits on a hand forged metal stand that is customized to fit the individual contours of each piece.
26 x 23 x 8.5”
Blown Chalcedony glass, forged steel
Iron work by Caleb Smith
25 x 20 x 8”
Blown Chalcedony glass, forged steel
Bronze work by Paul Cooper
24.5 x 21 x 10”
Blown Chalcedony glass, forged steel
Iron work by Caleb Smith
25 x 19 x 7”
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Blown Chalcedony glass, forged steel
Iron work by Caleb Smith
25 x 18 x 7”
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Blown Chalcedony glass, forged steel
Iron work by Caleb Smith
22 x 20 x 8”
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Blown Chalcedony glass, forged steel
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Blown Chalcedony glass and forged steel swiveling stand
23.5 x 17.5 x 9”
22 x 20 x 8”
Blown Chalcedony glass, hot sculpted glass, forged steel
Iron work by Ward Brinegar
38 x 9 x 9”
Blown Chalcedony glass, forged steel
Blown Chalcedony glass, forged steel
Iron work by Ward Brinegar
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Blown Chalcedony glass, forged steel
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Blown Calcedony glass, forged steel
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Blown Calcedony glass, forged steel
Iron work by Caleb Smith
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Blown Calcedony glass, forged steel
Iron work by Caleb Smith
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Blown Calcedony glass, forged steel
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Blown Calcedony glass, forged steel
Iron work by Caleb Smith
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Blown Calcedony glass, forged steel
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Blown Calcedony glass, forged steel
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In my newest Fractured Time series, I abruptly sever the sense of flow created through these abstract sculptures. I became aware that my sense of time was shifting, slowing down, and changing daily; a feeling that I believe was shared by many around the world. My spiraling forms represent the flow of time with a central opening that is severed and off-set, much as I felt my perception was during a period of prolonged isolation during the pandemic.
Blown Chalcedony glass
16" x 7" x 15"
Blown chalcedony and cobalt glass
8 x 14 x 14”
Blown, beveled, and hot-sculpted Chalcedony glass
9.5 x 12 x 18”
Blown and hot-sculpted glass
10 x 19 x 12”
The spiraling forms represent the flow of time (which are nicknamed TimeLines), and the vessel is loosely reminiscent of a sea form. This abstract sculptural series hearkens back to the sea and the triton shells Holmes used to collect on the sandy shores of Maryland. A spiral twist wraps around the outside of each vessel like a tentacle. Each piece is completely unique in shape and color, like a shell no two are the same.
Blown and hot-sculpted glass
9.5 x 15 x 11”
Blown and hot-sculpted Chalcedony glass
19 x 18 x 14”
Blown and hot-sculpted glass
10.5 x 11 x 13.5”
Blown and hot-sculpted glass
7.5 x 15 x 7.5”
Blown and hot-sculpted glass
18 x 11 x 8”
Blown and hot sculpted Calcedonia glass
Blown and hot sculpted glass
Blown and hot sculpted glass
Blown and hot sculpted glass
In this body of work Holmes looks at the nature of consciousness. The Timelines are a depiction of the human mind as it develops over the course of an individual’s lifetime. Holmes is inspired by the way people return back to familiar patterns and are constantly moving through the events of their lives in order to move forward. Much like a spiral this constant mental rotation is what informs every individual’s sense of self.
Hot Sculpted Chalcedony glass
Hot Sculpted Chalcedony glass
Hot Sculpted glass
Holmes enjoys melding her style with that of other glass masters and sculptors. The creativity that it takes to piece together the distinct approaches of two creative minds often leads Holmes to craft new techniques that expand the boundaries of her medium.
Caleb Smith and Elodie Holmes,
2021 Forged Steel and Cast Glass with gold leaf
72” x 66” x 48”
‘Gift’ represents the fragility and importance of pollinators for the growth of food for all animals, insects, and humanity.
Elodie Holmes glass art in collaboration with blacksmith Caleb Smith, at the Santa Fe Botanical Gardens newest art exhibition: Capturing the Light, Glass Art Inspired by Nature. June 13, 2021- June 22, 2022
For this show, the artists magnify pollinators, flowers, honeycomb and fruit to illustrate how important these things are to humanity and every living thing in our environment. These artists want to promote these issues in a way that makes people want to look, listen and take action for the sake of the planet.
Elodie Holmes and Caleb Smith
Blown and mirrored glass with forged steel
60” x 12” x 42”
To see yourself in the bee is the idea behind this garden sculpture.
Elodie Holmes glass art in collaboration with blacksmith Caleb Smith, at the Santa Fe Botanical Gardens newest art exhibition: Capturing the Light, Glass Art Inspired by Nature. June 13, 2021- June 22, 2022
For this show, the artists magnify pollinators, flowers, honeycomb and fruit to illustrate how important these things are to humanity and every living thing in our environment. These artists want to promote these issues in a way that makes people want to look, listen and take action for the sake of the planet.
Guardian Series
14 x 16 x 9”
Blown glass, cast bronze and steel
Elodie Holmes and Enrico Embroli Collaboration in bronze and glass
Through the timeless nature of glass and bronze materials, Holmes and Embroli create sculptures that blur the line between modern art and ancient artifact. The artists skillfully and creatively interpret iconic symbols of humanity, expressing the precarious relationship between humanity and nature. The intent of each piece is to express the spirit of old-world cultures and their relationships with the planet and humankind. The GUARDIANS visually reflect this deeply-rooted connection, with an intent to inspire the viewer to be cognizant of the immense responsibility we have as humans to protect each other, the vulnerable, and our beloved mother earth.
Guardian Series
12.5 x 26 x 6”
Hot-sculpted gold-leafed glass, bronze, wood and steel
Elodie Holmes and Enrico Embroli Collaboration in bronze and glass
As part of the Guardian Odyssey Series, this piece is loosely based on an Egyptian funerary boat- however, in this piece the glass figure represents precious life wrapped in gold, transforming to the higher self. The serpent head represents the earth and our physical manifestation; the bird head represents the higher self- essentially our tie to the heavens by our metaphysical identity. The crossed markings on the boat represent souls, and some of the other markings are like a hieroglyphic language.
Guardian Series
14 x 28 x 6”
Sand cast and hot-sculpted glass, wood, gold and forged steel
Elodie Holmes and Enrico Embroli Collaboration in bronze and glass
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Guardian Series
31 x 13 x 8”
Blown glass, cast bronze and steel
Elodie Holmes and Enrico Embroli Collaboration in bronze and glass
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Guardian Series
29 x 15 x 8”
Blown and hot-sculpted glass, bronze and steel
Elodie Holmes and Enrico Embroli Collaboration in bronze and glass
Guardian Series
31 x 14 x 8”
Blown glass, cast bronze and steel
Elodie Holmes and Enrico Embroli Collaboration in bronze and glass
Guardian Series
14.5 x 30 x 6"
Blown glass, cast bronze and steel
Elodie Holmes and Enrico Embroli Collaboration in bronze and glass
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Guardian Series
6 x 21 x 11"
Elodie Holmes and Enrico Embroli Collaboration in bronze and glass
This empty boat is beached on the bones of those that become lost in the turmoil of war and ethnic cleansing.
Guardian Series
25 x 20 x 8"
Elodie Holmes and Enrico Embroli Collaboration in bronze and glass
The people in the boat are crackled, glass-stressed and fragile in their changing and precarious lives. The 2-faced oarsman with no oars depicts no guidance.
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Guardian Series
25 x 22 x 8"
Elodie Holmes and Enrico Embroli Collaboration in bronze and glass
This Vessel is carrying the bones of the lost souls that never made it to safety.
14 x 5.5"
Guardian Series
Elodie Holmes and Enrico Embroli Collaboration in bronze and glass
18 x 5"
Guardian Series
Elodie Holmes and Enrico Embroli Collaboration in bronze and glass
22" highest
Guardian Series
Elodie Holmes and Enrico Embroli Collaboration in bronze and glass
!7" highest
Guardian Series
Elodie Holmes and Enrico Embroli Collaboration in bronze and glass
19 x 8"
Guardian Series
Elodie Holmes and Enrico Embroli Collaboration in bronze and glass
18 x 8 x 4"
Guardian Series
Elodie Holmes and Enrico Embroli Collaboration in bronze and glass
21 x 6 x 4"
Guardian Series
Elodie Holmes and Enrico Embroli Collaboration in bronze and glass
17 x 6 x 3"
Guardian Series
Elodie Holmes and Enrico Embroli Collaboration in bronze and glass
Blown glass, forged steel
Elodie Holmes and Jannine Cabossel
Blown glass, forged steel
Elodie Holmes and Jannine Cabossel
Blown glass, forged steel
Elodie Holmes and Jannine Cabossel
Blown glass, forged steel
Elodie Holmes and Jannine Cabossel
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Blown glass, forged steel
Elodie Holmes and Jannine Cabossel
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Blown glass, forged steel
Elodie Holmes and Jannine Cabossel
Blown and flame worked glass, gold leaf
Elodie Holmes and Chuck Savoie
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Blown and flame worked glass, gold leaf
Elodie Holmes and Chuck Savoie
As an avid bee keeper and gardener, Holmes based this series on the life of bees and their role in sustaining the environment. The bees work together drawing nectar from flowers to produce what they need to survive. In the process they pollinate plants and promote the survival of crops and wild flowers. Anthropomorphizing the bees and capturing them at work in the hive is meant to encourage viewers to consider three things. One, the human impact on bees through getting inside the workings of the hive. Two, the essential role bees play in the environment. Three, to show that like the delicate flowers the bees tend, their own survival rests on a fragile balance. Holmes wants the viewer to assess their role in maintaining this balance.
Blown and silver-coated glass with hand-forged steel base
60.5 x 31 x 21.5”
Blown, hot-sculpted, and flame-worked glass with 24k gold
18 x 8.5”
Blown and hot sculpted glass
Blown, hot sculpted and flame worked glass, bees wax encaustic on maple wood led light box
Blown, hot-sculpted, and flame-worked glass with 24k gold
11 x 6.5 x 6”
Blown, flame worked and hot sculpted glass, goldleaf
Blown, hot sculpted and flame worked glass
Blown and flame worked glass
Blown and hot sculpted glass
Blown and flame worked glass
Collaboration with Chuck Savoie
Blown and flame worked glass
Blown and hot sculpted glass
Blown, hot sculpted and flame worked glass
3' x 5' x 12"
Blown and flame worked glass, gold leaf
Collaboration with Chuck Savoie
Hot sculpted glass
Blown, flame worked and hot sculpted glass
One of Holmes’s most established bodies of work was originally inspired by the movements of Taiko drummers as they leveraged their whole bodies into beating wooden mallets against their large drums. The sketches Holmes made of these drummers inspired her to create flame-worked dancers. She pairs these figures with colorful disks of murine, an Italian style of glass cane handmade by the artist. These intricate pieces are arranged on a hotplate and then gathered onto the molten glass, which Holmes shapes into vessels, paperweights, and platters.
Blown and flame worked glass
Blown and flame worked glass
Blown and flame worked glass
Holmes encourages her viewers to step outside reality and imagine a world of dinosaurs and dragons. Anything could exist within the opaque exterior of each shell. It is up to each viewer to imagine the types of creatures inside these whimsical glass eggs.
Images of the artist throughout her 35 year career.
Holmes has appeared on shows like PBS, New Mexico True, and HGTV. These clips feature Holmes at work in her studio, and interviews with the artist.
Using an ancient Italian color recipe, Santa Fe glass artist Elodie Holmes creates vivid, colorful sculpture. “I often refer to it as not only the making of glass, but to see the final product as the art of astonishment - because it’s like, wow, did I really make that happen?!”
Santa Fe's renowned art scene isn't just about wandering the countless galleries and enjoying the work of the artists. There are also ample opportunities to participate and learn. In this case Michael makes some molten glass with artist Elodie Holmes. And yes, you too can take part.
