Being the daughter of a market-gardener Toos van Holstein choose for an a-typic career: artist and teacher in art. According to this independent nature she also made a choice, in a time that abstraction was more or less obliged at the academy, for a recognizable, figurative world in her paintings. With her marvellous use of colours she created, and still creates, a symbiosis of the many cultures in our world (see her websites www.toosvanholstein.nl and www.toos.biz)By this she hopes to give people joy in looking at art and at a world that is not only in the 'monde interieur' of herself but also inside that of the spectator.Toos van Holstein has been nominated several times for the election of the Dutch Artist of the Year by a panel of about 100 museum directors, art critics, collectioners and art teachers. In this prestigious election she is usually chosen amongst the 25 most popular artists in the Netherlands. In 2016 she became the Brilliant Artist of the Year.Specialties: Paintings by Toos van Holstein show a recognizable world but do not prescribe what has to be seen by the spectator. Your fantasy can have its own uninhibited way. Therefore Toos van Holstein rather speaks of her work as ‘figurative art’ instead of figural.Yet each painting is based on an own idea, experience or emotion emanating from literature, her own surroundings or her travels through distant countries. In this way Toos van Holstein creates a completely own world.tel. Toos van Holstein +31(0)118642071