UPCOMING GALLERY OPENING & EXHIBIT

Threads of Light: The Star and the Oracle - A Mother–Daughter Exhibition at ArtLofts

Threads of Light: The Star and the Oracle brings together the paintings of Cheryl Yellowhawk and Kaliesha Holm in a luminous conversation between tradition and discovery.

Cheryl’s painted star-quilt motifs feature turtles, butterflies, dragonflies, and flowers — symbols of transformation, continuity, and the natural rhythms that connect us all. Her work honors quilting traditions and carries forward a visual language of balance and renewal.

Alongside Cheryl her daughter, emerging painter Kaliesha Holm, presents a series of Oracle paintings that explore inner worlds and emotional landscapes through color and symbol. Her intuitive imagery — from flame and sea to celestial face and panther — reflects a personal awakening to creativity and self-expression.  Cheryl coached Kaliesha through the intensive self growth and frustrations that come with becoming an artist.

Cheryl’s  work forms a grounded, nature-connected constellation of life on Earth (butterflies, dragonflies, turtles, flowers) while Kaliesha expands that same pattern language into emotion, element, and transformation through symbolic form. Together, the exhibition tells the story of life as pattern — from the tangible to the transcendent.

Together, their paintings weave a tapestry of pattern and presence — mother and daughter, earth and sky, tradition and emergence — joined by a shared reverence for light as the thread that connects all forms of life.

Exhibit is free and open to the public. November 8th, 6-9pm.

ArtLofts Studios and Gallery - 10 Fifth St. N. St. Petersburg, Fl. 33701