Howard Coles

Howard Coles RCA, trained as a sculptor at Cardiff School of Art, Wales, following national service in the Royal Navy. He then embarked on a career as an educator, working in the UK and abroad. After taking early retirement from his position as head of faculty at Hope University, Liverpool in the 1990s, Howard has concentrated on his landscape painting, which he exhibits throughout the UK. Howard Coles aims to capture the essence of the landscape of North Wales in his paintings, not slavishly illustrate a scene. Using oil-based mixed media on paper, board or canvas, the format ranges from small A4 to full Imperial size or bigger. The larger the painting, the more abstracted the image. Although using a broad pallet, blue hues usually predominate as can be seen in the examples shown on this page. Howard Coles is represented in National collections from Wales to Singapore, as well as public and private collections world-wide.