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Howard Coles is a Welsh painter, living and working in the mutable landscape of North Wales.

His painting agenda is one in which the interaction of water and land, of weather and light dominates his images and pushes his techniques. Seemingly all embracing, the coastal landscape sustains his vision. It creates an impetus which enables the phenomena of light on sea and shore to be observed. It calls for new ways to impart to paper and canvas a variety of treatments which re-create the play of light on water. The activity of the coastline is the principal theme in Howard's art. Structures and spaces where sea meets land and the elemental forces which has formed this boundary has resulted in some of his best work.

Exhibitions

New Light National Library Gallery. Singapore. 1962
New Marks - Prints National Gallery.Singapore. 1963
Aspects of Nature. Prints - C. C. Gallery London. 1981
Contrasts: Chapel Gallery Criccieth.1996
Tide Marks: Chapel Gallery Criccieth. . 1997
Cross Currents - Plas Glyn y Weddw. Llanbedrog 2000

In the past 2 years he has exhibited at:

The Chapel of Art Gallery - Criccieth
Oriel Plas Glyn y Weddw - Llanbedrog
West Dean , Chichester.
View 2 Gallery, Liverpool
Albany Gallery - Cardiff
Edinburgh Gallery - Edinburgh