Michael is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, President of Bolton DFAS and Programme Leader of the School of the History of Art and Design at the Manchester Metropolitan University, where he teaches both academic and studio-based students.
He is a practising artist, a painter, sculptor, printmaker and ceramicist. He has exhibited at the Royal Academy and his work is represented in the Manchester Art Gallery and in many private collections here and abroad.
He and his wife the painter Ghislaine Howard run a studio Gallery in Glossop, Derbyshire where they run week-end and one day courses. He has curated many exhibitions at the Lowry, Manchester Art Gallery, the Imperial War Museum North and elsewhere. Currently Michael is working with Ghislaine on an exciting three year project with York Minster.
Michael has published widely on European art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, his books include:
L. S. Lowry: A Visionary Artist, (He also worked on the film on the artist that acts as an introduction to the artist’s life and work at the Lowry Centre), Gauguin, Goya, Whistler, Monet, Cézanne, The Impressionists by Themselves, The Stations of the Cross / The Captive Figure and the award-winning dramatic interpretation and publication of Dadaist performance: A New Order: An Evening at the Cabaret Voltaire.
In 2002, he was commissioned to write a personal guide to the Manchester Art Gallery, UPclose. His book on Monet was published by the Musée Marmottan and André Deutsch. His most resent publication is Van Gogh, published February 2010.
Michael Howard selected works:
