Born 1942 in Copenhagen. Lives and works in Copenhagen

Bent Holstein exhibited in DCA Gallery, New York, Spring 2005. Review by art critic Robert C. Morgan in ArtPress, Sep. 2005

From the introduction to Bent Holstein's book Tide Lines:

Bent Holstein: GREY XCALAK, 100x140 cm, oil on canvas, 2004

For the last five years it has been my privilege to spend some months in one of the most magnificent habitats on this planet: the Florida Keys. A place blessed with a beautiful winter, making the escape from the Danish chilly rain and snow an easy task. Since my first visit, my whole life as an artist, as well as a human being, has taken a new turn.
The first stunning ride from Miami towards Key West across bridge after bridge, watching the ever changing colour of the blue Atlantic Ocean and the Green Mexican Gulf, is an experience never forgotten.
Staying in a small hotel in Marathon, in the Middle Keys, I watched in fascination the moving tide, the shifting sky, the change from salmon pink to black, when a storm moves in.
I drift in a small boat with my flyrod, in search of bonefish and tarpon, following the heartbeat of the tide. The ride in a fast flatboat out into the Gulf, almost to disappear between the mangrove keys of the Everglades Delta. To step out of the boat on the flat in kneedeep water, looking around in a circle observing nothing but silkygrey water and the yellow sky. The tide drawing its lines of debris around your legs in a long drift. The tide lines.