Artist who studied painting at Falmouth School of Art and Design. He exhibited with Penwerris Community Arts Group in Falmouth, Cornwall, where he lived, and at Newlyn Orion Gallery as a member of Newlyn Society of Artists. Also showed with Independent Schools Exhibition, Dulwich Art Gallery and Oxford in 1986, and in Painting Today auction at Bonhams, 1991–2, was included in Falmouth Connections at Falmouth Art Gallery in 1994 and in same year had a portrait at BP National Portrait Award at National Portrait Gallery. Hold undertook several group murals and workshops in the local community, including a mural for Truro School. In 1998, with the artist Tim Shaw, Hold set up an open studios scheme in the Falmouth/Penryn area; by 2001, the South West Open Studios brochure listed 200 artists and 20 galleries and spread across 136 venues.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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