Kiff Holland was born in South Africa, and received his formal art training at the Univesity of Witwatersrand and at the Johannesburg School of Art.
In 1975, he immigrated to Canada, and since that time has become known for his fine watercolours, oil and acrylic paintings.In addition to his work as an artist, Kiff teaches in the Design and Illustration Department at Capilano College.
He is a past president of the Federation of Canadian Artists and he was elected a Sinature Memeber of the American Watercolour Society in 1992.He is also a member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour.His work has won many awards in CAnada and the United States, among them the first prize at the Society Canadienne de L'Aquarelle.his work is shown in gallereis in Vancouver, Saltspring Island, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto and Kelowna.
"Light reveals and defines, colour creates mood, and shadows harmonize and connect my paintings."
This perception has created many radiant works.Kiffs 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 lives on the edge of the forest in North Vancouver.