Bernard Holman was an English artist who later emigrated to New Zealand to paint and teach. He was born in Woking in Surrey, England in 1941 and died in Dunedin, New Zealand on 11 September 1988. Holman graduated from the in 1961 with a Diploma of Painting with Honours. He then spent several years teaching art in secondary schools, before being made visiting lecturer to the art department at his old school and at various other centres in Norfolk. Holman first exhibited as a student at the Suffolk Gallery and at the Royal Academy Diploma Gallery. After exhibiting in London and Norfolk, he moved to New Zealand in 1974 where he was appointed to the Otago Polytechnic School of Art. Holman replaced William Reed as the School's Drawing and Painting tutor and was lecturer in these disciplines fr