About Me

Hello! I’m Laine Holman (pronounced Lay-nee), a multi-media artist living in the California Sierra Nevadas with my hubby and five of our six children in our “Art House”, where creativity is part of daily living. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t love art. My early memories include sculpting in the damp earth, and cutting masks out of the ground to dry in the sun. I have always been an artist.

Throughout all of high school I was privileged to attend Pasadena Art College of Design for their Saturday High program, where I was trained by graduate students in still life and figure drawing. I then attended Brigham Young University, earning a BFA degree in painting and sculpture.

After my first two children were born, I began studying pottery under Master Potter Wayne Reynolds, who is the protégé of Marguerite Wildenhain of Bauhaus fame. I was blessed to learn the throwing techniques she taught, and I jokingly consider myself her “pottery grandchild”.

I’ve taught art lessons, community classes, and done online instruction and mentorships. I participate in local galleries and community art events whenever time permits.

My influences include my family, nature, and the human figure. I choose images that symbolically have a language of their own, with meanings inherent to my personal experience. I also receive a lot of inspiration from Process itself. The abstracts I create are a meditation practice for me.

My work has been featured in galleries in Sonoma, Sacramento, Malibu, Los Angeles and Amador Counties, and for three glorious months in New York City. I have been a featured artist at the 2024 PBS art auction in Sacramento California and enjoy donating work to worthy causes, providing art scholarships for youth and support for local hospice.