Painter in the naïve style, born in France. She became a student at Anglo-French Art Centre in London in 1946 where she met her future husband, George Swinford, and settled in Hampstead. She exhibited at Young Contemporaries in 1949 and at Beaux Arts Gallery in 1954 in mixed exhibitions, and many such appearances followed in Britain and abroad. Had a solo exhibition at Chenil Gallery in 1960, others including a series at Langton Gallery in the 1970s, Concourse Gallery, 1984–5, Crane Kalman, 1985, Graham Modern Gallery in New York in 1986, Bowmoore Gallery, 1989–91, Beaux Arts, Bath, 1996, Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, America, 1998, and Piano Nobile Fine Paintings, 2001 and 2004. Among Holzhandler’s later travels was a trip to Dharamsala, India, in 2002, for an audience with His Holiness The Dalai Lama of Tibet with her husband George and granddaughters Tara and Eve.