User:Dean howarth/sandbox

Dean Howarth is an artist ( painter ) born in 1958 in Wagga Wagga NSW. His work consists of brooding oil paintings concentrating on contrasts of tone and colour. He has exhibited in Adelaide, Bathurst, Broken Hill, Sydney and Port Macquarie where he currently resides. As a student he studied painting at the Adelaide Central School of Art for two years 1995-97. He has been inspired by artists Rembrandt, van Gogh, Velasquez, Dali, Sickert, Whiteley, Drysdale, Bacon, etc. Modern portraiture, Streetscapes, landscapes, still life, etc make up the main body of his work. He is currently exploring the manipulation of photographs with with computers.