Holly Nicholls is a British artist based in Scotland. Her multi-disciplinary practice investigates the way in which the realms of language, mark making and landscape interact. With a largely place-responsive process, she inserts herself inside ideas of legibility and abstraction in regard to the material world. Accruing abstract layers of observation through both site responsive research and physical experiences, the work is visually reduced into simple formats which can be received in fluid environments. Nicholls’ intuitive practice seeks to embody a space beyond representation. The work spans large scale paintings, print-making, poetry and film; allowing her to physically engage with the bonds between the tactile world and the act of making itself. Her most recent work uses muscle memory and recall to create a swinging pendulum between words and marks. A lexicon of flicks, twists, turns, hesitations, pushes, drags, pauses and folds have become the terrain in which she cultivates meaning and form. To translate the beating sensitivity that is felt in experience, a perceptive openness is necessary alongside a hunger for ambiguity. That which grows additively, incrementally and excessively are tools to produce and manage multiplicity. Whilst acknowledging the complex systems and patterns governing the natural world, Nicholls tries to operate in the provisional, the hypothetical, the mythical, the imaginative— imbuing a poetic nature to system building,  just like the land observed is subject to the passing of time and weather.