Ken HOWARD ~ Beach Scene ✿

Ken Howard is a british watercolour painter was born in 1932 in London. He trained at the Hornsey School of Art and at the Royal College of Art. He then studied in Florence on a British Council Scholarship. Ken Howard is one of few living artists who are able to capture light so vividly in both oil and watercolour. After art school and working as the official war artist for the Imperial War Museum, he travelled widely painting life and nature with superb honesty and accuracy, demonstrating a magical understanding of light, often found in works by artists such as J.M.W. Turner. He has exhibited at the Royal Academy since 1964 being elected ARA in 1983 and RA in 1992, having won a number of major awards along the way.