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Biography
Artist's
Statement:I paint with oils, covering the canvas as quickly
as I can and sometimes returning to it many times until I feel it
is finished. My paintings range from ex pets to world disasters.
No subject matter is too pathetic or too important.
Notes
on Painting: My favourite artists are Vincent van Gogh, Edvard
Munch, Billy Childish and Philip Absolon. Painting to me is about
sharing and reaching out to other human beings.
Born:
7.4.68, Medway, Kent
Education: Rede School, Strood, Kent
Exhibitions: .London:
Rivington Gallery, The Harrodian School, The Arts Club, Gallery
108, Pure Gallery, Stuckism International. Leeds: The Cube. Newcastle:
Arts Centre. Kent: Chatham Town Hall. Wednesbury Museum.
Collections: Mr and Mrs Sorrel, Billy Childish
Other activities:
Writing,
drumming, pinhole photography, making short films on super 8 cine.
Wolf
Howard left school at 16 and started playing drums with The Daggermen,
a 60's punk trio. He then went on to play in many other bands including:
The James Taylor Quartet (their first two years) and The Prime Movers.
He is currently drumming with The Solar Flares and The Buff Medways
with Billy Childish. Wolf spent over 13 years on the dole. His book
'Journals of a Jobseeker - a collection of poems' was published
in 2007. Wolf Howard currently lives in Chatham town and continues
to paint in an old sail loft over-looking the River Medway.
Sum total of employment: four months in a warehouse and two days
in a butcher's shop. Presently beyond employment.
He started doing art at the age of two, took a break between the
ages of fourteen and twenty-six and is now going strong. He considers
his report from M.Gomman, art teacher at Rede School to be accurate:
"Simon's
behaviour is often immature - as a result, not only his art work
suffers but often those around him suffer as well."
More
paintings: superHumanism.com
Poem by Wolf Howard
my paintings
travelling
on the train
in that other lifetime
I hid my head behind
my mothers back
to avoid the harsh stare
of those opposite
now
delivering my paintings
to an exhibition
I clutch them close to my chest
until the last possible second
they are my soft innards
they are where the child
and the adult meet
and each time they are looked at
I miss my mothers back
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