Colorful Tora Vega Holmström became one of the leading modernists in Sweden, from the time around 1910-1930. Her paintings are characterized by an often powerful and flaming color, colors she learned to use after art studies in Austria, with impressions taken from Adolf Hölzel's color theory. When she returned to her birthplace Åkarp in Skåne, she instead found a great ideal in the artist Axel Törneman and also felt great admiration for the artist couple Gabriele Münters and Vasily Kandinsky's paintings.

Tora Vega Holmström was a strong, independent personality, brought up in intellectual and cultural environments in Lund. She studied at Valand in Gothenburg, with the neo-impressionist Carl Wilhelmson as teacher. Tora Vega Holmström distinguished herself early on as a modernist and met Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism and Orphism in Paris in the early 20th century. At the same time, she had close contact with artists from the German avant-garde.

Tora Vega Holmström is represented at the National Museum Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Helsingborgs museum, Malmö museum, Länsmuseet Gävleborg, Norrköpings konstmuseum, Kulturen Lund and Ystads konstmuseum.