BIO
Angela Howard graduated in 2020 with an MA in Fine Art from York St John University. She is a landscape artist specialising in painting environments close to her heart. She prefers the use of paint in her work; using this to depict the drama of the nature of Northern England, especially the Lake District, North Yorkshire and Holy Island. She also has a particular interest in the local area, especially Dalby Forest and its ethereal qualities.
She is influenced in her work by artists such as Caspar David Friedrich, Michael Raedecker and Anselm Kiefer in her pursuit of the sublime in the landscape. The environment is within her, ‘the stirring of the trees, the singing of the river and the rustling of the leaves. It soothes but is magnificent in its awe.’ She explores the sometimes benign, but ultimately awesome pull of nature and endeavours to explain its two characters.
ABOUT THE ART
My work relating to the theme SelfScapes will explore and consider the duality of the environment and landscape. My work incorporates the idea of ‘From Adderstone to Kirkstone’ and how I see myself in both landscapes, from forest to mountain, from stream to sunset. There is a duality in both the nature of these landscapes in their topography and also in their spirit, from the benign to the dramatic. I wish to explore the sublime, returning to my own sense of awe and insignificance against the majesty of these places. I will look to my own soul for this understanding, feeling both the soothing quality and the sense of awe. I am concerned with how I will marry my images of these two contrasting environments, the Adderstone in Dalby Forest and the Kirkstone standing proud at the bottom of Red Screes at the head of the Kirkstone Pass. The work will empathise with the natural world by being placed in it, close to the Nissen Hut, entangled in the trees and of course close to the spirituality of the Adderstone.