We are printmakers at Holborn Gallery, operating a state of the art printmaking studio. We work alongside many artists in the area to create limited and open edition prints from their original artwork. and utilize large format Epson printers to create fine art giclée prints for artists in the north Florida area. Hugh Holborn serves as artist and printmaker creating archival Angler, Botanical, and Figure prints of his work.

The Angler Series
Besides art Hugh's passion is fishing. Free time is spent along the north Florida coast, rivers and lakes fishing for popular sport fish like Redfish, Trout, Flounder and other species. Utilizing a japanese technique called Gyo-Taku Hugh paints his fish then prints them on cotton fabric. These impressions are then transferred to the computer via a high resolution digital scanner. From the computer Hugh uses Adobe Photoshop a photo imaging application to blend the scanned fish, photographic elements, and hand painted brush strokes to create his final print. Once in its finished format Hugh uses Epson large format printers and archival watercolor paper or canvas for its final output.

Figure Series
As a Jacksonville, Florida native and 8-year resident of Taos, New Mexico, living in the colorful southwest has inspired Hugh's creative sensibilities and helped to define his artistic career. While in the southwest, Hugh became very intrigued with the powerful impact of ancient Indian rock art or "petroglyphs." The primitive portrayal of humans and animals on rock faces, overhangs along the Rio Grande and other desert locations has conjured a rich mental imagery of our early civilized beginnings. He became enthralled with the efforts of these early artists, and the transcendent beauty they captured in their work. As an artist, Hugh has sought to recreate the human form in its raw state, to move closer to a 21st Century petroglyph.

There is something irresistible in the guttural elegance that these shapes portray. Over the past 16 years he has developed a printing technique that involves painting and printing people's naked bodies in combination with digital art methods to achieve this result. Most recently, the merging of photographic elements within his "modern petroglyphs" is an evolutionary force within his art.