Dolly Holmes is a painter living in Petersburg, Virginia. Educated at The Cooper Union and Hunter College in New York, Dolly sees her mentors as the early American modernists, such as Marsden Hartley, John Marin and Arthur Dove. She and her husband moved from Brooklyn to Petersburg in 1997 to renovate an 1828 house, to live more simply and focus more time on their artwork. In 2002 they bought an old pawnshop, which they use for studio space. Dolly has shown at New York’s Painting Center and Soho Center for Visual Artists, Perspective Gallery at Virginia Tech, artSTRAND in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the Offsite Gallery in Norfolk, Sol Cooper Gallery and Walton Gallery in Petersburg. She is represented by the Eric Schindler Gallery in Richmond, Virginia.