Lot 224 - Ghislaine Howard - Cordelia with Bryn

Oil on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About
Ghislaine Howard is widely recognised as a painter of powerful and expressive means, whose art charts and interprets shared human experience. Named as a Woman of the Year 2008 for her contribution to art and society, she has published and exhibited widely and has work in many public and private collections, including the Royal Collection.

Exhibitions of her work have taken place at numerous prestigious venues including Manchester Art Gallery, Canterbury Cathedral, Imperial War Museum North and the British Museum.

Education
1972-1976
BA in Fine Art, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Solo Exhibitions
2025
Taking Care, Bolton, Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, Bolton, England
2024
The Fragile Thread, Contemporary Six, Manchester, England
Empathy, Headquarters of UK Med, Elliot House, Manchester, England
Seven Acts, St Stephen's House, Oxford, England
2023
The 365 Series, Keele University Chapel, Keele England
The Human Touch, Bolton Hospice, Bolton, England

Group Exhibitions
2024
Acts of Creation, The Arnolfini, Bristol, England
Death of the Liferoom, The Whitworth, Manchester, England
Drawing the Unspeakable, Towner Museum, Eastbourne, England

2023
Rogue Women, Rogue Studios, Manchester, England
Modern British, Contemporary Six, Manchester, England

Awards
2008
Named as a 'Woman of the Year' by The Women of the Year Foundation

Gallery Representation
Contemporary Six, Manchester, England
Trent Art, Stoke on Trent, England
Callaghan Fine Paintings, Shrewsbury, England
Collect Art, Lymm, England

Public Collections
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England
The Royal Collection, London, England
The Methodist Art Collection, Oxford, England
Salford Art Gallery, Salford. England

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
'Cordelia with Bryn' is an intimate painting of my daughter with her first child. The motif of parent and child is one that recurs throughout my whole career as a painter - from making paintings based on my own experience of pregnancy and motherhood to creating a body of work in 1993 'A Shared Experience', that charted the whole experience of hospital birth and was described as 'groundbreaking, the first of its kind'. It's been a privilege to revisit this aspect of my work with my own children and grandchildren.

Brothers: A painting that developed from a quick sketch made in a chapel in Padua. I was touched by the sight of a young man who had difficulty walking, being helped through the chapel by another. I am drawn to such moments of human interaction: such simple everyday acts of kindness are a central theme of my work.