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Boscoe Holder, a Trinidad-born artist of creative
energy began painting at age five and never stopped until his death
in 2007. His paintings have appeared in galleries and exhibitions
in the US, UK, Finland, Sweden, Canada, Guyama, Brazil, as well
as throughout the Caribbean. Holder is a household name in his native
land where he is known best for his talents as a pianist, but also
has become famous as a dancer, actor, television host, and performer
of all sorts.
In 1947, Holder went to New York for the first time. While there,
he taught Caribbean dance at the Katherine Dunham School. Holder
married, and later moved with his new wife, Shelia, to the UK in
1950.
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While in Europe, Boscoe formed a dance group,
Boscoe Holder and his Caribbean Dancers, and performed
with them on television shows, cabarets, films, and club theaters
across the continent. During this time, Boscoe painted regularly
and continued to show his paintings. Holder returned to the Caribbean
in 1969 and continued to show his work in galleries around the
globe. In his native Trinidad he was continually honored by the
government, receiving awards, invitiations to exhibit his work,
and even had a street named after him. In 1981 one of his paintings
was given to Prince Charles and Lady Diana as a wedding gift,
and his work remains in imporatant private collections.
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