Streeter has been painting for the past 40 years. Originally from Manhattan, she currently lives in Naples, Florida and Cambridge, Massachusetts.She trained at the Art Students League of New York with the great Robert Beverly Hale among others, and at the Rhode Island School of Design with Robin Wiseman and Arnold Prince. She holds a BA from Connecticut College where she studied with Barkley Hendricks. As a girl, Streeter spent summers with her family in Rhode Island, sailing on the Sakonnet River. This is where she first learned to paint, as did her family before her. Her father was an artist, as were his sisters and their parents. They were schooled in painting by renowned watercolorists Charles Woodbury, Elizabeth Ward Perkins, and Gertrude Nason who would come for summer visits. And this loving gift was passed down to Holden at a young age."Early on, I discovered Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper and fell in love with their vivid use of light in painting. Later I found Rockwell Kent with his spiritual connection to the landscape. I became mesmerized by the dazzling brushwork of Cecilia Beaux, marveling at her handling of oil paint. Helen Frankenthaler and Wolf Kahn stirred in me a love of intense color as a means of expressing feeling - lively but also relaxed and peaceful. The works of Alex Katz and David Hockney reminded me to have fun with the process, be optimistic, and share the joy."