Andrew Howard's Art: About The Artist

A self taught artist, Andrew has strived to produce very high quality art. He was greatly impressed by the photo realistic paintings created centuries ago when he was young, many of which hang in our stately homes, Andrew has always sought to create similar beautiful results. Hard-wired for shape and colour, brightness and contrast, he has always been obssessed with achieving an almost photographic standard in his work. To turn a blank canvas into a near photographic image is an incredible thing to achieve! Terence Cuneo and Edwin Landseer have both inspired his paintings of animals and Pablo Picasso is ground zero for Andrew's modern art paintings. Andrew also loves the paintings of Rex Whistler and Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, he's amazed by the quality and quantity of the work of William Morris and he's fascinated by the success of David Hockney. Prints of Claude Monet and L.S. Lowry paintings adorn the walls in Andrew's home. And regarding Andrew's approach to his art, a quote attributed to Gottleib Daimler, one of the founders of Mercedes-Benz struck a chord - "The Best or Nothing!"

Press Mentions

In addition to being accepted into the Guild of Railway Artists for the quality of his railway paintings, Andrew's horse portraits received a mention in both Horse and Hound magazine, 16th November 2017 and Absolute Horse magazine, November 2017. (See Below)

Postscript

Artist: "I do portraits now, inserting the rich into old masterpieces,"

Detective: "The wife's face on the Mona Lisa?..."

Artist: "From Brooklyn to Greenwich in one generation, you've gotta have the paintings to match..."

The Thomas Crown Affair, 1999