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Howard was born at 4 Exley Avenue, Keighley and now lives on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales near Keighley with his wife Sheila, in the hamlet of Ickornshaw (North Yorkshire).

Filled with nostalgia for Keighley, he tells the story of this old industrial town in the 1920’s and 30’s. He fills his canvases with colourful, naive, townscapes, with grey sagging roofs, soot blackened buildings, fat pigeons, brightly coloured street jewellery and sometimes, the larger than life characters such as Freddie Gramophone, Frizzy Lizzy, Nellie Nit Nurse, Spud Mick, Cow Alice and Clogger Kennedy among others.

For Howard, Keighley is a “badly battered old lady” owing to official schemes of demolition, notably the removal of the Hippodrome to provide space for a bus station and the loss, by fire, of the beautiful Mechanics Institute. His paintings are an attempt to pay homage to the town that was, and to those who built and worked in her and helped her prosper.

Many of his works, which range in size from 24" x 18" up to 36" x 30", are in private collections throughout the UK, in Europe and the Americas. He was featured on Yorkshire Television’s ‘Dales Diary’ (with Sheila) where Luke Casey described Howard as “very much a town boy”.

Examples of Howard's paintings can be seen at Alfe's Restaurant, Church Green, Keighley - http://www.alfes.co.uk

Commissions accepted