PROFILE
Born in Malaysia of Australian and Scots parents, Howard Tweedie lives and works mainly in Australia. His s works are held in private collections in Australia, UK, France and Vietnam. Howard currently works mainly outdoors and from his Artarmon studio. He studied at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney, the Royal Art Society of NSW and with Studio Escalier, France
Howard Tweedie with Alan Somerville and Tweedie’s portrait of Alan
Website www.howardtweedie.com
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
“My passions are for colour and movement and the strange wonder of what we’re seeing – in people, places and objects. I love the never-ending challenge attempting to master the tonal richness, subtleties and daring of oil. With portraits, I try to show that special something in each person within the amazing architecture of the human face.”
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2014 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Semi-Finalist
2014 NSW Parliament Plein Air Prize, Semi-Finalist, Parliament House, Salon des Refuses
2014 Collection Beaux-Arts Realiste, Pastel (digital exhibition), Finalist
2013 Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Finalist
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 Australian Art Show, Hordern Pavilion, Sydney
2013 Story of the Creative, New York (digital exhibition)
2013 Northbridge Art Prize, Gallery 307, Finalist
2013 Mosman Art Society Members Exhibition, Mosman Art Gallery
2012 Parallax Art Fair, Chelsea Town Hall, London
2012, 2013, 2014 Lane Cove Art Award, Gallery Lane Cove
2012, 2013, 2014 Royal Art Society of NSW Art School Student and Teachers Exhibition, Lavender Bay Gallery
2010-14 Julian Ashton Art School Student and Teachers Exhibition
BIBLIOGRAPHY
August 2014 Visual Language Magazine, US
August 2012 Southwest Art Magazine, US
TRAINING
2012, 2013, 2014 Studio Escalier, France
2012-13 Royal Art Society of NSW Art School
2010-11 Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Lane Cove Art Society, Mosman Art Society, Portrait Artists Australia, Plein Air Brotherhood UK, Plein Air Painters of Australia.