d. 21 April 2007
Boscoe Holder was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad in the early 1920s.
He already painted from the tender age of five and was an accomplished pianist at a very early age as well, playing for the wealthy French Creole, Chinese and Portuguese at their functions by the time he was 9 years old. In his late teens he formed his own dance company.
In his dance he used traditional Afro-Caribbean interpretations :shango, bongo and bélé. He frequently used his dancers as models for his paintings.
In 1950 Boscoe Holder moved to London,England where he danced and performed on the piano at all the well-known theatres and clubs. By that time he was married to Sheila Clarke who was his lead dancer in his own dance company and also became his favourite model for his painting. He has staged many one man exhibitions in Trinidad and exhibited also in New York, Helsinki, Stockholm, Ostende and England.
At the end of the 1960s he returned to his native land where he established himself soon as one of the top painters, not only in Trinidad and Tobago, but throughout the Caribbean. Boscoe Holder has exhibited frequently in most of the Caribbean islands and his paintings can be found in many collections around the world.
N.B. The following paintings are on display only and NOT for sale.
