About Me
Ken Howard with Self-Portrait
One Man Exhibitions
1955 Plymouth Art Centre
1966 John Whibley Gallery, London
1968 John Whibley Gallery, London
New Grafton Gallery, London
1972 Plymouth Art Gallery - Retrospective Exhibition
1974 New Grafton Gallery, London
1976 New Grafton Gallery, London
1978 New Grafton Gallery, London
1979 New Metropole, Folkestone
Hong Kong Art Centre
St Helier Gallery
1980 St Helier Gallery
1981 New Grafton Gallery, London
1982 Nicosia
1983 Delhi
1984 New Grafton Gallery,London
St Helier Gallery
1985 New Grafton Gallery, London
1986 Linton Court Gallery
1987 Lowndes Lodge Gallery, London
New Grafton Gallery, London
1989 Lowndes Lodge Gallery, London
New Grafton Gallery, London
1990 Lowndes Lodge Gallery, London
1991 Lowndes Lodge Gallery, London
Brian Sinfield Gallery, Gloucestershire
1992 Lowndes Lodge Gallery, London
1993 New Grafton Gallery, London
Brian Sinfield Gallery, Gloucestershire
New Grafton Gallery, London
1994 Brian Sinfield Gallery, Gloucestershire
1995 New Grafton Gallery, London
1998 The Everard Read, Johannesburg
2000 New Grafton Gallery, London
The Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town
2002 onwards at Richard Green, London
(every year or everysecond year in January)
Public Collections
Plymouth City Art Gallery
Sheffield Art Gallery
Hove Museum and Art Gallery
Guildhall Art Gallery, London
Ulster Museum and Art Gallery
The Imperial War Museum, London
The National Army Museum, London
Biographical Chronology
1932 Ken Howard born in London
1949-53 Studied at the Hornsey School of Art
1953-55 National Service in the Royal Marines
1955-58 Studied at the Royal Collect of Art
1958-59 British Council Scholarship to Florence
1959 First exhibited at the New English Art Club
First exhibited at 147 New Bond Street
1962 Elected member of the New English Art Club
1966 Elected member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters
First prize Lord Mayors Art Award
1969 First prize Arundel Art Centre
1973 Appointed official artist in Ireland by the Imperial War Museum
1978 Prize winner John Moores Exhibition
1979 Elected member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours
Prize winner John Laing Exhibition
1981 Elected member of the Royal West of England Academy
1982 First prize Hunting Group Awards
1983 Associate member of the Royal Academy
Prize winner Royal West of England Academy
1985 Critics Prize, Sparkasse Karlsruhe
1986 Prize winner New English Art Club Centenary Exhibition
1988 Honorary Member of the Royal Society of British Artists
Honorary Member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters
Honorary Member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1992 Member of the Royal Academy
1998 President of the New English Art Club
2001 Critics prize New English Art Club
2004 Professor of Perspective, Royal Academy of Arts
2006 Hon. Fellow, Royal Institute of Oil Painters
Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Painter Stainers
Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Painter Stainers
Commissioned Works
The Drapers Company
The Haberdashers Company
States of Jersey
HQ British Army of the Rhine
United Nations Forces in Cyprus
The Stock Exchange, London
Lloyds of London
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Banque Paribas
Publications
The Paintings of Ken Howard. David and Charles.
Ken Howard, A Personal View: Inspired by Light. David and Charles.
Ken Howard, A Vision of Venice in Watercolour. Royal Academy
Masterclass. Watson and Guptill.
Ken Howard, Art Class. Watson and Guptill.
Ken Howard, The Complete Artist. Juniper Publications.
Neil MacGregor, Britain's Paintings. Daily Telegraph.
Watercolour Masters, Then and Now. Royal Watercolour Society.
Marion and Susie Harries, The War Artists.
Philip Van, Face to Face. British Self-Portraits in the 20th Century.
Artists' Manual. Harper Collins.
Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in the Imperial War Museum.
Le Messurier, Dartmoor Artists.
Tom Cross, Catching the Wave.
Ron Ranson, Modern Oil Impressionists.
The Old Water Society's Club, Vol. LX.
Oxford Watercolours.
Cambridge Watercolours.
Sally Bulgin, Oils Masterclass.
Jurg Gabathhuler & Ken Howard Switzerland: in the Footsteps of Turner
Ken Howard Light and Dark