About

This journal includes some of my thoughts and development process for ongoing visual arts projects.  It accompanies my webpage www.andrew-howe.com .  A full statement of my artist practice is included on that website, together with various examples of my work.

My aim as an artist is to express my experience of the physical, emotional and temporal character of situations.

Photography is a major force in the way in which I observe the world and my approach to painting is influenced by photography, and vice versa. 

I am interested in rhythm, transition and connections in situations that are time-related, and I seek to describe these phenomena using both painting and photography in different ways. Photography’s relationship with time is more defined than painting, since the photograph is known to be the capture of a specific period in time.  Paintings have greater flexibility to represent a subject, almost timelessly, or at a particular moment.

The relationship between people and the built and rural environment is a theme I return to.