Stephen Howard
Spirits of the Forest II
Oil on Board
745 x 565 mm
$7,000
Available
‘Spirit of the Forest II’ brings Stephen Howard’s trees together into a hedge-like form teeming with lively sprites of colour. The cloud above is ethereal and gentle. This painting offers a minimal view of an elemental landscape, musing on notions of perception and the artist’s abstract vision of the natural world.
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.