Monique Holiday Art

Since I was a child, painting has given me a life purpose. With every opportunity, I work in acrylic and oil on canvas. Also, I paint digitally by utilizing Adobe Photoshop. I rebel against Euro-centric reality by revealing my brushstrokes in a Post-Impressionism manner. Combining both underpainting and texture, I strive for delicate boldness. When I apply bold colors directly from the tube, I project a balance of pure emotions onto the canvas. These emotions play with the perceptions of positive and negative, which helps us feel human altogether. By blending some colors, my canvas also reveals a mixture of the cosmos and spiritual auras surrounding each subject. Overall, my work revolves around the Diné principle called Hózhó. Hózhó is a Navajo word connecting happiness, beauty, harmony, and goodness. Hózhóogo naasháa doo is a Navajo sentence, translating as “I walk in beauty.” Beauty comes within from ourselves, the land, our People, and the universe, which is why I must paint.