“Light
reveals and defines, colour creates mood, and shadows harmonize and
connect my paintings.”
This perception has generated many radiant works. Kiff Holland’s
paintings reveal his experience of light, its ability to reveal and
conceal, to define and to cloud, to excite and to soothe. Light and
colour make mountains, water, trees, people, pots, and flowers, faces,
and glass eminently paintable.
Kiff Holland
was born in South Africa where he received his formal art training. In
1975 he immigrated to Canada. In addition to his work as an artist, Kiff
Holland teaches in the Design & Illustration Department at Capilano
College.
He is a past
president of the Federation of Canadian Artists and he was elected a
Signature Member of the American Watercolor Society in 1992. His work
has won many awards in Canada and the United States. Galleries in
Vancouver, Saltspring Island, Calgary, Edmonton and Toronto show his
work.
Kiff Holland
lives with his wife, Janet, on the edge of the forest in North
Vancouver.