La gare , oil painting, 80 cm-90 cm

March 2012

Expo in 2012 in the new gallery Kesk-Art in the old town of Workum (the Netherlands)

In March a new gallery started in Workum, one of the so-called Eleven Cities in the province of Friesland in the North of the country. The gallery houses in a beautiful monumental building from the 17th century. In one of the big rooms in this mansion the art of Toos is shown till the beginning of June.

A video of the vernissage can be seen on the YouTube-channel of Toos.

Digital art by TOOS

Besides this website Toos now has a second one www.toos.biz. Just have a look and see the newest developments in her artistic career in which she uses the digital possibillities of our time. See and admire TOOS.

See the video's of TOOS on her own channel on YouTube

On this YouTube channel TOOS shows several video's about her exhibitions, her digital art and a lot more. See here also TOOS-the movie. Click on TOOSvanholstein .

Toos van Holstein again among the 25 most popular Dutch artists

In the prestigious election of the Dutch Artist of the Year 2011/2012 Toos van Holstein has ended as nr.21 in the combat between the most popular artists in the Netherlands. Not bad at all if you take into account that there are thousands of painters trying to achieve a position in this election.Have a look at the list of nominated artists on www.kunstweek.nl/verkiezing .

Art and Culture Route in Middelburg

In the historic hometown of Toos van Holstein every first Sunday of the month an Art and Culture Route is organized. More than 40 ateliers and galleries in the medieval town of Middelburg are open to the public from 1-5 PM. So if you are in Holland during one of those Sundays you are kindly invited to visit the atelier of Toos van Holstein at the Korendijk 56 in one of the most beautiful old towns of the country of which the history goes back to around the year 1000 AC.

some examples of the new set of cards by Toos van Holstein

 
New set of cards
Because the old set of 12 cards of water colour paintings by Toos van Holstein is nearly sold out

she has made a new one. A few examples of these new cards, 11 cm by 15 cm, can be seen on top of this newsletter. They show the prints of a series of new mixed media painting on hand made paper, partly based on her stay as an artist in residence in Beijing.

More information about this new set is found by clicking on the knobs 'Publications' and 'Cards & CD-Roms' on the English openings page.

The T-sign line of Toos van Holstein

Toos is not only a painter. She also makes stone lithographs and bronzes. But now she has started to produce a design line under the name of T-sign line. The first results of this new activity can be found under the links 'Works of Art' and 'Design' on the English openings page. Here she also explains the background for the making of a metal table and the light and dress-hanger objects under the names of the mesa-brocado, the luz-brocado and the ropas-brocado.