The Way (Spring)
Red Tower (Tekke III)
Memphis
Shiraz I
Untitled (Orange, Blue, Yellow)
Red Tower (Tekke III)
Memphis
Shiraz I
Untitled (Orange, Blue, Yellow)
Gallery 311 Artworks, Istanbul
16 April 2015 – 15 May 2015
There is no mistaking a painting by Charles Howard. He manages to conjure up images of Greece that transcend the conventional tourist views of coastline and scenery, souvenirs of another holiday in the sun. Howard’s paintings offer us much more. They are eloquent distillations of the experience of ‘being’ in Greece and they speak with the timeless poetry of place just as surely as the unaffected beauty of early rembetika moves us with its passionate lyricism. Meticulously crafted, Howard’s compositions appear deceptively simple, yet he shares with Uccello the ability to depict the world with a sophisticated naiveté. With their luscious colour and bold design, these paintings are a powerful affirmation of poetic enchantment.
Glen Baxter
16 April 2015 – 15 May 2015
There is no mistaking a painting by Charles Howard. He manages to conjure up images of Greece that transcend the conventional tourist views of coastline and scenery, souvenirs of another holiday in the sun. Howard’s paintings offer us much more. They are eloquent distillations of the experience of ‘being’ in Greece and they speak with the timeless poetry of place just as surely as the unaffected beauty of early rembetika moves us with its passionate lyricism. Meticulously crafted, Howard’s compositions appear deceptively simple, yet he shares with Uccello the ability to depict the world with a sophisticated naiveté. With their luscious colour and bold design, these paintings are a powerful affirmation of poetic enchantment.
Glen Baxter