Biography
Peter Howson (b. London, UK 1958) moved to Glasgow as a boy and attended Glasgow School of Art (1975–77). He then took two years off to do a number of jobs; was in the Army for a time and travelled in Europe. He resumed his studies and graduated in 1981. From 1982–3 he painted murals at the Feltham Community Association, then in 1985 he was artist-in-residence at the University of St Andrews. He won the Arthur Andersen Purchase Award at Compass Gallery, Glasgow, Barras show for the 1986 Mayfest. Howson has shown widely abroad and his British solo exhibitions included a retrospective at McLellan Galleries, Glasgow (1993), Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow (1999), Flowers West, Santa Monica, California (2001), Flowers Central (2002), and Stations of the Cross, Flowers East (2003). He was the Official War Artist for Britain in Bosnia, sponsored jointly by The Times newspaper and the Imperial War Museum, who along with Flowers East, showed his war work in 1994. and he later went to Kosovo, in 1999. In 2001, Howson designed Scottish Opera’s production of Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni. Flowers Graphics gave Howson a print retrospective in 2004. A major exhibition When the Apple Ripens: A Retropsective was held at the City Art Centre, Edinburgh, 2023.
