Michael Howard

Michael is an independent scholar, writer, painter and curator. He is married to the artist Ghislaine Howard with whom he shares a passion for art and the joy and creative release that it can bring to people’s lives. He is currently working on an exciting five-year project for the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce with Ghislaine. He has curated numerous exhibitions and examples of his own work may be found in Manchester Art Gallery and many private collections both in the U.K. and abroad.

He is President of the Arts Society Bolton and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and for many years he taught academic and studio-based students at History of Art Department at the Manchester School of Art [MMU]. Over the years he has given many talks for Christies, Sothebys and ACE study tours and has lectured at universities and art galleries both in the UK, USA and Europe.

Michael has been a lecturer with the Arts Society for over 30 years and is the author of many books including The Impressionists by Themselves, Techniques of the Masters, (Goya and Whistler); L.S. Lowry A Visionary Artist; The Human Touch: Ghislaine Howard, Paintings, Drawings and Prints; Monet in association with the Musée Marmottan and Gauguin in association with the Gauguin Museum in Tahiti.

He is currently working on a two-volume publication, Walking on Fire relating to the life and work of perhaps the last forgotten master of British twentieth century art, the extraordinary Theodore Major (1908-1999): and a novel centred on Albrecht Dürer and his quest to find a unicorn. He has also written the libretto for an opera and number of short plays inspired by the ghost stories of Mary Elizabeth Braddon and William Hope Hodgson.