The Great Atlantic Galleries

howard coles
watermarks dyfrnodau

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Wet Sand
Tywod Gwlyb
20 x 16” mixed media

Howard Coles RCA was born and raised in Cardiff and attended the city’s College of Art. After a period spent teaching in Singapore, he returned to the UK and became Head of Art and Design at what is now Liverpool Hope University.

The area around Cardiff Bay - a region of estuaries and mud flats - and the coast of the Principality in general have been the major influences on his work. Howard now lives and works on the Lleyn Peninsula in North Wales, an area which has become central to his painting and printmaking. “An impulse to work with the coastal landscape of Wales is now ingrained - not from holding a mirror to the landscape but as a reaction to the first telling observations of what is seen and felt. Underlying the appearance of what is observed lies the bones of his work - the emotional and technical framework that holds each painting together.”

Howard Coles is an academician of the Royal Cambrian Academy. He has exhibited at many venues in Wales and elsewhere in Great Britain, and in Singapore. The Great Atlantic Monmouth Gallery is proud to be able to exhibit his work.

Please call 01600 714527 (gallery hours) or 01736 786016 (evenings and weekends) or e-mail: gallery@greatatlantic.co.uk to reserve the painting of your choice.

Paintings may be collected by arrangement or we can deliver from as little as £20 depending on size and distance. Money back if not entirely satisfied (provided we are informed within 3 days of your painting being collected/delivered). Cheques and all major credit cards accepted. Colours may vary between the original paintings and the reproductions shown here. All paintings are framed .