Tom Howse Chester, UK, b. 1988

Tom Howse (b. 1988, Chester) recieved a BA in fine art painting from the Wimbledon College of Arts in 2011 and was shortlisted for the Prunella Clough Painting Award (2011) and the Catlin Art Prize (2012). Howse's work, The Thunderous Silence of Your Presence, won a John Moores Painting Prize in 2018 and was exhibited in the prize exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery. 

Howse’s paintings balance between realism and fantasy and explore what the artist describes as the dichotomy between our quest to know and our fallibility to comprehend. Explaining the mysteries of the cosmos, the earth and humanity; the theme of life and death; and the causes and meaning of natural phenomena, has bewildered humanity since ancient times. Taking it’s form in folklore and myths, Howse is interested in how humans are drawn towards explanations found within these stories and how they are used to sooth the fear of the unknown.

Tom Howse has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Duarte Sequeira, Braga and Seoul; Galleri Opdahl, Norway; No.9 Cork Street Gallery, London; LINSEED Projects, Shanghai; Lychee One, London; Rod Barton Gallery, London; and Tanja Pol Galerie, Munich. He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions at Alexander Berggruen, NY; PM/AM Gallery, London; Saatchi Gallery, London; Galleri Kant, Copenhagen; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; J Hammond Projects, London; and Regent's Park underground, London.