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PEOPLE: Art Holman has been painting abstract landscapes in the San Geronimo Valley for decades. His current, and perhaps his last, exhibit, depicting nebulas and stars as seen from outer space, shows at Toby’s Gallery through March 1.“I want to reach into the viewer’s mind and change his or her life, like mine has changed,” he said. David Briggs

Art Holman, a painter who has lived in San Geronimo Valley for decades, wasn’t sure he would make it to the opening of his exhibit at Toby’s Gallery last Saturday. He was in the hospital just a few weeks ago, and is fighting pneumonia with one lung. But he wanted to appear at the showing of his paintings of outer space, many of which took months to complete as he applied layers and layers of…