GHISLAINE HOWARD


The intimate and the domestic


The morning bath: after Degas
Oil on canvas
86cm x 56cm
34" x 22"
Woman on the beach
Oil on canvas
46cm x 61cm
18" x 24"
Nude in the bathroom
Oil on canvas
76cm x 61cm
30" x 24"

Self-portrait with a hand mirror 1998
Oil on panel
127cm x 102cm
50" x 40"

Self-portrait with a hand mirror (study) 1998
Acrylic on canvas
51cm x 30cm
18" x 12"

The pink and black dress
1997
Acrylic on canvas
183cm x 91cm
72" x 36"
This group of works celebrates and records aspects of the more intimate moments of human life. In recording these ordinary, casual episodes of the everyday, a gesture or movement may suggest something that can be used as the basis for a more public work. One never knows when a twist of the head or a movement of a hand may suggest a sequence of ideas that can be used elsewhere. 
Study: lovers 1997
Oil on primed paper
74cm x 56cm
29" x 22"

Lovers 1997
Oil on canvas
127cm x 76cm
50" x 30"

Bedroom study 1997
Oil on canvas
41cm x 56cm
16" x 22"

Bathroom study 1998
Acrylic on canvas
36cm x 56cm
14" x 22"


Michael in the bath 1984
Oil on canvas
61cm x 102cm
24" x 40"


Self-portrait in the bath 1998
Acrylic on canvas
61cm a 46cm
24" x 18"
Without being in any way programmatic, these works are traces, clearly marking the passing of my own existence. In the same kind of way as the snap shots in a family album record and celebrate any life. In some  indefinable way, I feel they are necessary counterparts to the rather grander, more ambitious works that I feel drawn to create.
- Ghislaine Howard

Max sleeping 1997
Acrylic on canvas
56cm x 51cm
22" x 20"

Siesta, La Haute Gouliere 1997
Oil on canvas
46cm x 61cm
18" x 24"

Cordelia sleeping 1992
Oil on canvas
36cm x 51cm
14" x 20"

Max in a yellow shirt
Oil on canvas
76cm x 71cm
30" x 28"
Max - the first day (detail)
Oil on canvas
175cm x 183cm
69" x 72"
Cordelia at the table
Oil on board
15cm x 15cm
6" x 6"

Cordelia with a mandolin 1994
Oil on panel
20cm x 20cm
8" x 8"
My feet 1997
Oil on ceramic tile
15cm x 15cm
6" x 6"
Nude study 1998
Oil on ceramic tile
15cm x 15cm
6" x 6"
Self-portrait with a hand mirror 1998
Oil on ceramic tile
15cm x 15cm
6" x 6"
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