Stephen Howard
Tree Island on the Lake
Oil on Board
990 x 1270 mm
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Stephen Howard’s ‘Tree Island on the Lake’ offers a magnetic composition of form; a softly robust mountain crowned by a singular mellow cloud that follows the length of the island. Shrouded in exquisitely detailed trees, the island is punctuated by a linear stroke of cool blue grey, the reflection below exuding a dynamic sense of movement within still waters, calling us back to Howard’s ‘Moving Light’ works.
Artist Bio
Stephen Howard is a Canterbury-based painter whose luminous landscapes explore the interplay between perception, memory, and movement. Working primarily in oil on board, Howard renders abstracted environments that offer a heightened experience of place shaped by the shifting presence of light and the slow unfolding of time.
Central to Howard’s practice is an intuitive understanding of light as both subject and medium. His distinctive use of colour and tone produces an atmospheric radiance that seems to animate the surface from within. Trees bend gently, edges shimmer, and light in motion softens forms. These gestures evoke the subtle rhythms of wind, weather, and the emotional currents of lived experience.