ABOUT
About Holly Meeker Rom
Holly Meeker Rom is a painter working in watercolor media on paper. Her art is described as lyrical, colorful, translucent, sensuous, and simplified. She has over 40 years of practice arranging visual elements, historical art references and drawing skills to create compositions that live and breathe
with imagination, joy, and confidence. Most importantly, she creates expressive visions of nature, plants, architecture, and women.
Rom traveled the world extensively while also serving as a docent at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1997-2014, which impacted her understanding of art history and influenced her professional art. She has won awards in many shows, including the top award for water media in 2003 at the Flinn Gallery in Greenwich, CT, and at the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club annual, where she won multiple awards spanning 2004 - 2021. Most recently she was awarded the Artist Laureate 2023 Award from the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club.
She studied at Rhode Island School of Design, has a Master’s Degree in Fine Art in painting from American University in Washington, D.C. and a Bachelor’s Degree from Mills College. She is a professional board member emeritus of the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, a signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society, a New York Artists Circle member, and a Salmagundi Club resident artist member.
Selected Collections
William N. Rom Environmental Lung Disease Laboratory
2015, Lawrence Hospital, Bronxville, NY
NYU School of Medicine, Department of Medicine
New York,
2006 and 2002
Metro Media Fiber Network
White Plains, New York, 2002
The Osborn Retirement Home
Rye, New York
Time Warner Collection
New York, New York, 1995.
Division of Pulmonary Medicine
New York Univ., Bellevue Hospital, New York
IBM
Yorktown Heights, New York, 1990.
American Express Travelers Cheque Operations Center
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Former Senator Hillary Clinton
Chappaqua, New York, 2004
Exhibitions of Note
2024
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, BWCA.org, Fearless Watercolors
"Ballerina in Red" Watercolor 11"x15"
"Surfer Girl" Watercolor 11"x15"
2022
American Watercolor Society Associate Members Online Exhibition
"Island Ferry"
2021
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Annual Open juried Exhibition Award in Watercolor
"Grand Canyon Waterfall", Watercolor and Collage, 30"x11.75"
2019
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Members Show, Award in watercolor
"View From Carl Schurz Park of East River"
2016
Northwest Watercolor Society 76th Annual Open Exhibition, Salis Award
"African Dress"
2003
Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Arts Society Annual, First Prize in Watermedia
"Birch Dynamic" Watercolor, 45"x29"