Colourful Tora Vega Holmström became one of the leading modernists in Sweden, from around 1910-1930. Her paintings are characterised by an often powerful and fiery colouring, colours she learned to use after studying art in Austria, influenced by Adolf Hölzel's colour theory.

When she returned to her birthplace Åkarp in Skåne, she found a great role model in the artist Axel Törneman and also felt great admiration for the paintings of the artist couple Gabriele Münter and Vasilij Kandinsky.

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 her teacher. Tora Vega Holmström distinguished herself early on as a modernist and encountered Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism and Orphism in Paris in the early 1900s. At the same time, she had close contact with artists from the German avant-garde.

Tora Vega Holmström is represented at the Nationalmuseum, Moderna museet, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Helsingborgs museum, Malmö museum, Länsmuseet Gävleborg, Norrköpings konstmuseum, Kulturen i Lund och Ystads konstmuseum.