LR: Where do you get the ideas for your paintings and their names?

LH: If you look at Lea’s review, I think she really understood what I was trying to do. I’m like a daughter of abstract expressionism and I’m influenced by other abstract painters. Everything from Richter to Pollock, a lot of action painters. I’m bold in my color choices and brush strokes. I’m very influenced by an Austrian painter named Herbert Brandl who was in the Elysian. I try to work with movement and motion and keep everything moving. I try to be really bold in my titles because I find that a lot of what you see in the abstract expressionism is that titles don’t click. They use names like “Green #72” and for me, as a woman, there’s a lot of emotion in my paintings and that was the continual feedback from critics. So if there’s going to be emotion in the paintings, to me there had to be something personal or something emotional in the title.

“Let Me Fall”

It’s not always so emotional. Some paintings are more technical. I usually go for something more literal, like “Let Me Fall”. It obviously implies a waterfall but then I’m pulled to abstraction because I’m more interested in my take of what a waterfall is, which is the goal of any type of abstract impressionism. Even “Between Two Seas”, which has an element of landscape in it, is still abstracted to a certain degree. And then, it seems that everybody, and especially the critics, feels that the larger murals are my signature paintings because no one has really done that style yet. I think that in the last two years that’s what I have been searching for as to what makes a painting like a Laurel Holloman painting. If you look at “Quiet Alpha Male”, that’s probably what Laurel Holloman paintings are going to look like, or “Gravity Always Wins”, or “Thrive”, or “Free Falling”. Paintings that have movement and bold brush strokes.