Howard Phipps is a painter and printmaker with a special interest in wood engraving, a medium in which he is acknowledged as a leading exponent. In recent years his work has been acquired by several prominent institutions, such as the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, The British Museum and the Yale Centre for British Art in the USA.
Howard has lived near Salisbury since 1980 and his art is rooted in the downs of Wiltshire and Dorset, with their deep coombes and Beech clumps. He works from drawings and watercolours made on location, using light to reveal the underlying sculpture of the landscape. Ancient track ways and striking hill forms draw his eye-timeless places on which earlier generations have left their mark. His subsequent wood engravings are profoundly imbued with a sense of place.
Howard has had numerous solo exhibitions in London and the South of England. Howard's solo exhibition Cutting It Fine at Salisbury Museum in 2021-22 as featured on BBC Radio 4's Front Row Arts programme.
Howard has been a frequent exhibition at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions since 1985 where he has also been a recipient of the Christies Contemporary Print Award.
Howard is an associate of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers (ARE) a Royal West of England Academician (RWA) and a member of the Society of Wood Engravers.