Multidisciplinary artist and writer
Holly James is a multidisciplinary artist and writer exploring the connections between humanity, place and presence. Drawing from her experiences as a neurodivergent woman navigating society, she uses writing, photography, ceramics, and painting to explore the world through her own lens.
Taking inspiration from her trips around Japan and Europe, she quietly observes our relationship with nature, and wonders how we can coexist more effectively with the natural world.
Her most recently published work can be found in the community anthology Words in Bloom (2025), Edge Zine (2025) and on her Substack.
Upcoming
Creative residency at Kindred House, Margate, TBC 2026
Letters To My Daughters by Hawa Camara, Editorial, Spring 2026
Sound + Vision Issue 2, March 2026
Interview with Kai Kathleen, Sound + Vision Zine, Jan 2026
Written
Idle Thoughts, poetry, published in Words in Bloom Anthology September 2025
Voluntary reader for Only Poems Magazine May 2024-5
An Introduction to Creative Writing, City University London Short Course, Spring 2024
Co-founded Writer’s Saloon, a Guildford based writing community in September 2023
Creative
‘Green Desert’ (oil pastel), featured in Edge Zine issue Green, September 2025
Bird painting workshop with reception class, Wonersh & Shamley Green School, September 2023
‘Hagstones’ (etching), featured in the In Dreams exhibition, Newhouse Art Space, August 2023
Two woodland murals, Wonersh & Shamley Green School, 2020, 2021
Education
Foundation in Painting, Open College of the Arts, June 2025 - May 2026
Ceramics level 1, Guildford Adult Learning course, Autumn/ Winter 2025
Creative Writing course, City University London, Spring 2022
Introduction to Copywriting, City University London, December 2021
Certificate of Higher Education in Music Technology, University of Sussex 2026