In Reverie, Holly Crocker Garcia portrays a moment in which the outside world has gently fallen away. Eyes closed and head softly tilted, the figure rests upon one outstretched arm, her body completely surrendered to stillness. She seems suspended between thought and feeling—not quite asleep, but drifting through a private landscape of memory, imagination and quiet pleasure.
The warmth of the toned paper envelops her, while delicate pastel pencil gives her skin a luminous, almost weightless presence. The long sweep of her reclining pose creates an unhurried rhythm across the composition. Reverie celebrates the restorative freedom of turning inward and allowing the mind, for a little while, simply to wander.
Artist: Holly Crocker Garcia
11½” x 17” pastel pencil on toned paper
Original
Framed: 17” x 22½”
In Reverie, Holly Crocker Garcia portrays a moment in which the outside world has gently fallen away. Eyes closed and head softly tilted, the figure rests upon one outstretched arm, her body completely surrendered to stillness. She seems suspended between thought and feeling—not quite asleep, but drifting through a private landscape of memory, imagination and quiet pleasure.
The warmth of the toned paper envelops her, while delicate pastel pencil gives her skin a luminous, almost weightless presence. The long sweep of her reclining pose creates an unhurried rhythm across the composition. Reverie celebrates the restorative freedom of turning inward and allowing the mind, for a little while, simply to wander.
Artist: Holly Crocker Garcia
11½” x 17” pastel pencil on toned paper
Original
Framed: 17” x 22½”