He also does work in drawing, collage and printmaking, and employs a liberal approach to technique as well as subject. At the onset of his training, Lindholm studied with Lynette Lombard and Tony Gant, graduates of Yale University School of Art, and developed a natural ability to work with powerful color in the act of painting. His undergraduate term in the Knox College art department exposed him to the Modernist idiom as a latter-day contextual reference. This help set the stage for his readiness to sympathetically borrow from the visual traditions of differing cultures, within the context of achieving what Clive Bell called Significant Form in terms of aesthetic expression.