Stephen Howard’s latest body of work continues his exploration of light as both subject and material, presenting a series of luminous, distilled landscapes that sit at the intersection of perception and memory. Working in oil on board, Howard constructs environments that feel at once familiar and intangible; spaces shaped less by description than by sensation.
New Works Release
Stephen Howard
On Display
In these new paintings, light is not simply observed but activated. It arcs, diffuses, and settles across the surface, animating softened forms and subtly shifting planes. Colour emerges in prismatic passages; fleeting and atmospheric, suggesting geological formations, weather systems, or distant horizons without fully resolving into place. Edges dissolve, forms bend, and space opens outward, creating a sense of movement held in suspension.
Grounded in a deep sensitivity to the natural world, Howard’s practice resists direct representation. Instead, it distils the experience of landscape through memory and duration, holding stillness and transition in delicate balance. The paintings appear to contain their own internal luminosity, as if illuminated from within, inviting a slower, more contemplative mode of looking. This body of work extends Howard’s long-standing inquiry into the conditions that shape our experience of place. Each painting becomes an encounter with atmosphere; a shift in light, a moment at the edge of change, offering a space where perception itself comes into focus.
