C. Holland van Suchtelen was born in Beverwijk, the Netherlands in 1949 and moved to Canada in 1951. She attended the University of Western Ontario to earn a degree in Natural Sciences and later studied at  the Ontario College of Art and Sheridan College. She began her 35 year career with oil painting and graphic design and  went on to stained glass and sculpture and is now working with acrylic paints and pencil.

She earned recognition as one of Ontario's foremost artists while she lived and worked in Barrie and Toronto, Ontario. She now  resides in Vancouver, BC. Her works are in private collections across Canada and the United States.

She says: "I cannot live without my work. It is as necessary to me as breathing and friendships. It's odd but, if I don't work, a seriously large part of me is just a shadow in this world. Artistry wakes me up, engages all of me in a way that nothing else does - so I'm guessing that this is what I was born to do with my life."

I am a proud owner of several of her works from throughout her career and I can describe them as original, imaginative, extremely skilled and completely beautiful and alive. Her color sense is flawless and I anticipate this showing will be an explosion of new forms and juxtapositions so inherent in her lifetime of insistent exploration.

Timothy Silverman