| Fine art and architecture is a natural marriage for Robert Holmes. Sculpture and the context in which it is contained is the media for Holmes to transcend the enclosures creating a seamless flow with the landscape. The contemporary, sleek geometries of modern architecture and art become imbued with warmth and spirit in nature. The attention to detail, the fascination with light and the exploration of space, keeping it simple- minimal and intriguingly familiar yet mysteriously unfamiliar, describes Holmes's style with his art and his architectural designs.
Robert was instinctively talented as a boy of 16 in designing and helping build two homes in Arizona, where he grew up. He completed a degree in Civil Engineering, rather than architecture due to the lack of a program at that time, from the University of Arizona in 1952. Robert moved to Northern California where he started the Robert Holmes Construction, Design, Development Company. He spent his spare time sculpting his semiabstract figures. Holmes designed two of his warm contemporary homes in Atherton, California and seven luxury homes on 2 _ acre sites in Portola Valley in the Westridge area. In 1958 Robert moved his business to Phoenix Arizona. He continued designing and building custom luxury homes, four of Holmes's designs were featured in the Phoenix Republic and Gazette newspaper and several in Sunset Magazine. Robert was a master builder and designer, building: three large churches in the Sun City area, apartment complexes with over 480 units, banks, and the Metropolitan Life building in Phoenix until the early eighties. Robert sold his contracting business, in 1981, and decided to pursue his sculpting passion exclusively. He moved to The Sea Ranch, California started casting his work through the encouragement of the Los Angeles gallery owner and world-renowned art critic, Charles Feingarden, who was responsible for bringing Rodin sculpture to the United States. In 1989 Robert established and still maintains his own bronze-casting foundry in Sebastopol, California.
The focus of integrating Holmes's bronze sculpture and the design of the home shown herein, exhibit his naturally inspired genius. The home was completed in 2003. It is a renaissance of Robert's early architectural designs infused with his internationally acclaimed fine art. Holmes and his team are available for consultation in art selection, architectural design detail, second opinion on architectural design features, and at times may offer special exclusive commissioned sculpture that is integrated with architectural design.
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