Ken Howard studied at Hornsey School of Art from 1949 to 1953. Between 1953 and 1955 Ken served in the Royal Marines before studying at the Royal College of Art until 1958. He went on to win a British Council Scholarship to Florence from 1958 to 1959. His first one-man show was held at the Plymouth Art Centre in 1955. From then on, he exhibited extensively, both nationally and internationally, particularly with the New Grafton Gallery from the early 1970's and with the Richard Green Gallery from 2002-2014. He was given a retrospective in 1972 at the Plymouth City Art Gallery, and in 1973 and 1979 was appointed by the Imperial War Museum as official artist in Northern Ireland. He also worked with the British Army in Germany, Cyprus, Oman, Hong Kong, Nepal, Norway, Canada, Belize and Brunei from 1973 to 1982.

Howard was elected a member of the New English Art Club in 1962, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1966, the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1979, the Royal West of England Academy 1981, Honorary Member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1988, Royal Academician in 1991, President of the New English Art Club in 1998 and received an OBE in 2010.

Among his numerous awards are First Prize in the Lord Mayor’s Art Award in 1966, a Prize Winner in the John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool in 1978, First Prize in the Hunting Group Awards and the Critics’ Prize at Sparkasse Karlsruhe in 1985.

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