A selection of Mari Howard’s paintings
Mari exhibited at Oxford Artweeks, Bristol Record Office, Oxford University Press, St Giles’s Church Oxford, Manos’ cafe, Walton Street, Oxford, and more recently with the ‘Studio’ group in Conwy, North Wales.
A selection of ‘Christmas Images’. Left to Right: ‘Annunciation’, ‘Visit of the Shepherds’, ‘Journey of the Magi’, and ‘Magi arriving, with Angels above’.
These below are a random selection which Mari first chose when selecting a few paintings to begin this page. They represent a range of ideas over several years…
Dancing Tree (2022-3), from a real scene in our local nature reserve. Others here (Spring in the Wood, Refugees, Spike, Stones, and Arriving at Nursery) date from around 2014, 2016, 2010, and 2013.
The Yellow Dress recalls my bedroom at age four or five, and excitement at the glowing colour of a dress passed down from my cousin Liz, that had been hung on the picture rail!
Spike, to the left, was a large and gentle cat. The painting above, ‘Arriving at Nursery’, is a social comment, based stylistically on the paintings of Gustav Klimt - but far from his usual subjects…
Above: The Dance Class reflects Clare’s observation of life around her; Swan Pair is an image (from another person’s photograph) of the local partner birds that she so much loved; Two Figures after Walter Langley evidences her admiration for the Cornish Newlyn School of artists; and Mindful Walking again reflects her actual experience of being a member of a Mindfulness class sent to perambulate out of doors.