Aaron Holland Fine Art

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.

I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

-Elizabeth Barret Browning (To her husband Robert Browning)

Grow old along with me!

The best is yet to be,

The Last of Life, for which the first was made:

Our times are in His hand.
Robert Browning

HOLLAND- oil on canvas, 20" dia. -sold-

I have been keeping a sketch journal for about fourteen years (I am on my eighth or ninth sketchbook currently).

Much like a BLOG, I find them to be a great place to capture the "meditations of the heart" or to put down "visual reminders" and inspirations.

4 x6" graphite on paper, HOLLAND

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Photo anon.

When Johann Sebastian Bach was asked why he was a musician he answered, "For the love of God and a pleasant occupation".

"Golden Gate" HOLLAND, 2007, photograph

This painting is of a little river near my home that empties into Lake Michigan. The sheltered inlet offers reflective waters most of the time, and I found the contrast of new and old striking.

Painting by Holland, 9 x 12", oil on linen

"Skill in handling pigment is necessary to create rhythmic feeling...

"Painting is like handwriting- the grace and swing in curves, ovals and the general rhythm in the line of written words is possible only when the hand easily and confidently makes the strokes. "

-Edgar Payne