About Russell Hollings

Russell Hollings has been interested in painting from a very early age. He was educated in South Auckland and lived in Papakura. The surrounding countryside and coastal area provided him with just the right environment to practice his painting, with continued efforts painted outdoors.

Hollings found the ability to work outdoors of utmost importance. He joined the Papakura Art Group where the encouragement and stimulation he received from the other artist members was just what he needed at that age.

Russell is mainly self taught, although received some tuition in still life painting in a class tutored by the late Ida Eise, OBE held at the Auckland Society of Arts in the 1970s.

In the artis...