“I think about making a 1 for 1 translation of the physical world; each blob of paint is a recording of an area of colour I’ve observed. It could be anywhere from 30-500 recordings that make up the entire image. It’s like being a big camera with a very slow exposure, except unlike a camera you also record your behaviours during the making of the painting. I see areas where I have meticulously and obsessively recorded the correct colours, and areas of broader, more hasty brushstrokes.” - Eddie Howard
Eddie is a painter, printmaker and drawer, working with a variety of mediums. He works in series, using archetypal subjects and genres of still life, landscape and portraiture to explore the tradition of European painting. He considers his paintings as an act of drawing; often from life, sometimes photographs. The real subject of his work, however, is the act of observation and recording. The finished work becomes a souvenir of the time spent obsessively pursuing colours, an honest record of the artist’s exchange with the subject:
Eddie’s attention to colour and the economy of his touch create a unique and ever-evolving language for documenting the nuanced characters of objects, people and places. Recently Eddie has been creating large scale iPad drawings of the flora and landscapes of the Sussex Downs and coastline where he is from.