Union and Garden: Colin Howkins

Union and Garden at Galerie Mayci Colin Howkins January 12 - 13 April 2018 Union and Garden offers a rare opportunity to see works on paper by artist, Colin Howkins, who died in October 2016. The Union series comprises screen-prints produced during a residency at Wolverhampton School of Art in 2008. The six months that he spent there enabled Colin to expand his practice as a painter using a variety of printmaking techniques to explore the graphic language of flags. The Garden collages, produced during 2015, display a vitality reminiscent of late Matisse cut-outs, in their exploration of his mid-Wales garden. These collages were a method employed to develop visual notes for larger-scale paintings to follow. Colin Howkins had a house and studio, for over 50 years, at Tyn-y-graig near Tregaron. He spent his working life as a teacher in the West Midlands before retiring to devote himself to working full-time, as an artist, at his Tyn-y-graig home where he produced paintings displaying his strong affinity with the landscape of mid-Wales. He has work in several national collections including, Warwick Arts Trust, London, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and Worcester City Museum.