Artist George Holmes
Artist George Holmes
From idea to revival
Bess founder Christy Mack discovered a large art collection tucked in the rafters of a California recycling center while she was out with her son looking for abandoned electronics for his DYI experiments.
Christy inquired about the art. She learned it was the work of the late George Bishop Holmes (1945-2015), a recently deceased Northern California artist who was a University of California Berkeley graduate and professor at Diablo Valley Community College.
Christy thumbed through Holmes’s sketches, portraits, abstracts, nudes, and still lifes of people and regional landscapes. She couldn’t let the art sit abandon at the recycling center.
Christy received permission from the center’s owner and late artist’s family to take the 200 plus works of art home. For the next year, Christy documented and catalogued Holmes’s work. She lovingly reframed his art and hung it on the walls of local businesses and in the homes of friends so his work could be seen and discovered once again.