Kiff Holland’s paintings reveal his experience of light, its ability to reveal and conceal, to define and cloud, to excite and 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 the Canadian Artists and he was elected as 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.