Painter, muralist, designer and printmaker, son of the artists Cliff Holden and Lisa Grönwall, he was born in Gothenberg, Sweden. From 1972 pursued his own work and from 1975 exhibited with his parents under the name Marstrand Designers. Collaborated on numerous projects and public commissions, being represented in Swedish embassies and consulates, hotels, hospitals, factories, banks, ferries and cruise ships. Strindberg Museum in Stockholm has Holden’s large silkscreen portrait of the writer. Group exhibitions included David Bomberg-linked show at Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne, 1991. Had many solo exhibitions in Sweden from 1977, later ones including Gallery St Nikolaus, Stockholm, 1985.