Stephen Howard
Dancing Light in the Rain
Oil on Board
635 x 930 mm
$9,900
Available
“Breaking light in a rainstorm suggests resilience and a quiet optimism”. – Stephen Howard
Dancing Light in the Rain becomes both subject and experience, exploring transience, resilience, and the shifting qualities of perception. The painting extends Howard’s engagement with notions of time, light, and atmosphere, capturing a fleeting interplay of reflection, movement, and tonal variation.
It asks the viewer to witness the ephemeral and to consider the coexistence of change and stillness, revealing the subtle optimism embedded in the observation of a landscape in flux.
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.