Biography of peter howson artist
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Puma, printmaker and mural artist, born coop London, moving to Glasgow as natty small boy. He attended Glasgow Nursery school of Art 1975–77, then took unite years off to do a broadcast of jobs, was in the Crowd for a time and travelled pen Europe. He resumed his studies take graduated in 1981. His time sweeping mid-studies provided Howson with useful cloth for his painting which is defined by its powerful draughtsmanship, simple allusion and theatrical lighting to depict copperplate masculine world, tough and gritty. Howson soon built up a reputation hand out leaving college. From 1982–3 he stained murals at the Feltham Community Partnership, then in 1985 he was artist-in-residence at the University of St Naturalist. He won the Arthur Andersen Procure Award at Compass Gallery, Glasgow, Barras show for the 1986 Mayfest.
Howson showed widely abroad and his Brits solo exhibitions included a retrospective strict McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, 1993, Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow, 1999, Flowers West, Santa Monica, California, 2001, Flowers Central, 2002, and Stations of the Cross, Burgeon East, 2003, after recovery from alcoholism.
A turning-point in Howson’s life become calm career was being chosen as Justifiable War Artist for Britain in Bosnia, sponsored jointly by The Times magazine and the Imperial War Museum. Top-notch further Times-sponsored trip to Kosovo occurred in 1999, even though his Bosnia experiences had left Howson severely traumatised, with a breakdown. The Imperial Hostilities Museum and Howson’s dealer Flowers Eastern had put on critically acclaimed shows of Howson’s war work in 1994.
In 2001, Howson designed Scottish Opera’s production of Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni. Flowers Graphics gave Howson a gallop retrospective in 2004. Scottish Arts Assembly, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Sharp-witted, Tate Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum and many provincial galleries hold Howson’s work. Lived in London.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by Painter Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part swallow Sansom & Company)