Lamia Karen Holden’s Bio #1
Marketing Professional
Lamia Holden is a dynamic and inventive web professional with a robust technical background and extensive experience in design and marketing. Her expertise spans website visitor segmentation and targeting strategies, tag management and visitor tracking, e-commerce analytics and reporting, and email campaign strategy.
Renowned for her strategic acumen, Lamia excels in conducting detailed evaluations of online projects and implementing efficiency-enhancing processes. She is an exceptional communicator with a talent for resolving problems and innovative troubleshooting.
Experience with:
- Marketing Strategy
- Campaign Planning Execution
- Reporting Analysis
- Project Management
- Creative Problem Solving
- Digital Marketing
- SEO/SEM
- Website Creation/Maintenance
- Web/Graphic Design
- Interactive Technologies
- Dynamic Tag Management
- Visitor Tracking
Lamia Karen Holden’s Bio #2
Artist/Teacher
I hail from Sale, England, with core elements of my soul deeply rooted in the rich complexity of the Middle East, particularly Syria, my father’s homeland where I spent a formative year during my early childhood. Art has been my constant companion for as long as I can remember. I’ve always believed that, despite our attempts to confine it, time stretches boundlessly. This is most apparent during moments of creativity, when time seems to both pause and vanish in the blink of an eye, like a fleeting vision. My synesthesia-like perception of color, light, and emotion has revealed to me that certain combinations can evoke profound contentment or unsettling anxiety. I’ve always known, without a doubt, that a meaningful existence hinges on the delicate curation and balance of light, shape, color, empathy, and creativity.
As a child in England, I remember the realization that I could make fantastical fan shapes with my paint-loaded round brush; with a few twists of my brush I glimpsed the versatility and power of the instruments of art. One particular afternoon I created an abstract image that drew the attention of my art teacher and resulted in my being featured in the local paper. When I moved with my family to the USA I continued with drawing and painting, and in middle school one of my encaustic paintings won the regional Boston Globe Gold Key award.
I hail from a family steeped in the hard sciences, rendering a degree from an art school an unlikely path for me. Consequently, I honed my analytical skills, pursuing a degree and career in computer science, which eventually led to a specialization in e-commerce marketing. To achieve equilibrium in my life, I have consciously devoted time to nurturing my artistic inclinations alongside my professional endeavors.
For the past fifteen years, I have primarily embraced encaustic painting as my medium of choice. Encaustic painting provides a unique outlet for expressing my inner spirit of curiosity. Through practice, I have learned to exert a degree of control over this medium, yet its organic unpredictability remains intrinsic to the process. I employ my analytical mind to devise a plan, but ultimately, I surrender to my creativity, immersing myself in the fluid interplay of beeswax, pigments, and damar.
A lifetime of appreciating and absorbing the beauty that surrounds us has provided me with a solid foundation from which to pursue creativity.
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