Michael Howley Art

Michael Howley Art

bringing nature’s moods into your home

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Soundscapes, etc.

Following my recent moodscapes in watercolours, I continued with the series into soft pastels. Below is a piece called ‘Dark Mountains’ which captures for me, the subtle beauty of night...

Watercolour Moodscapes, continued

Here are some more of my current watercolour ‘moodscapes’ series. Hope you like them. You can see the full collection by clicking the Moodscapes tab at the top of this page. Dawn Mist...

Watercoulour Moodscapes

I’ve been working on a series of watercolour moodscapes recently. The technique is wet into wet and I used a limited palette of Indian Red, Raw Sienna and Indigo. The form of each image emerged...

New Collections 2013

We have just launched our New Collections 2013 Exhibition at Art & Soul. Below are some photographs of the work, including atmospheric landscapes and skyscapes by myself, evocative black and white...

Blue and Pink Skyscape

I’ve returned to the skyscape series this week. I really enjoyed this one as it just seemed to flow. The mountboard surface holds the pastel really well and so I could create depth through...

Sunbeams over Pendle from Roughlee

In this second of the Pendle series, I’ve zoomed in a little so that the hill is slightly more dominant. Again, it was the lighting effects around the hill that I wanted to capture. This will...

Art Tutor Video: Art & Soul

Here’s a taster of Art and Soul from our friends at Art Tutor.com. They introduce the clip as Burnley rather than Padiham but as they’re from the distant land of Liverpool, we’ll...

Sunset over Pendle from Roughlee

As promised, here’s the first of the Pendle series: ‘Sunset over Pendle from Roughlee’. I’m pleased with this one because it captures the light effect as the sun begins to...

Sunset over Southport Sands

I’m still working on the Pendle series which I’ll add to the blog soon but here’s a painting of Sunset over Southport Sands that I’ve finished off this week. It had been...