I'm Holly Harris, a stained glass, textile, and visual artist based in forested Durham, North Carolina where I live with my husband of eight years, James, and our adopted cat, Zephyr. I have an MA in World Arts from Dallas International University, a degree designed for working with communities to leverage their artistic wealth to meet their own needs. I have also been a studio artist at Liberty Arts in Durham since October 2025. In my free time, I volunteer at the Life and Science Museum in the exhibits shop, read serial webnovels, and play both tabletop and console rpgs.

Working under the name Wild Weald Studio, I am exploring themes of psychological healing, personal reclamation, connection to the natural world, and the hope of an ecologically integrated future. My visual language is deeply informed by the organic: botanical motifs, vibrant color, flowing motion, and the tactile experience of tools and materials in my hands—cool metal, brittle glass, soft wool.

My artistic practice lives at the intersection of touch, curiosity, material, and emotional need; I am a maker before I am a woman, even before I am human. With some media, I begin without a plan and allow my hands and the material to speak to my eyes and my heart. For other media, I compose first and fabricate second.

My work is rooted in traditional artisan processes—Tiffany-construction stained glass; threadcrafts such as hand-spinning, crochet, tatted and needle lace; and other visual media such as chalk pastel and impasto acrylic paintings. The practice of traditional crafts connects me to the artisans who have come before me, my hands continuing the same motions human hands have used for centuries, sometimes millennia. I want to carry that thread of the past and connect it to the future, weaving new opportunities for the treasures of the ancient past to inform and intertwine with the solarpunk future I want to live in.