Peter Howson’s paintings are confronting, brutal and violent. But an understanding of the Scottish artist’s past explains a lot about his creative process. In 1993, aged 35, Howson worked as Britain’s ...

Peter Howson’s story is one of seeking dignity in human suffering and violence, and finding redemption; it is also uniquely Scottish. When The Apple Ripens, Howson’s retrospective at Edinburgh City ...

Glasgow-based Tangent created an online identity and launched the website to coincide with Howson's new exhibition in New York. Tangent director David Whyte said: "We are privileged to have worked ...

Renowned Scottish artist Peter Howson says he found viewing a new exhibition of his work going back 40 years to be "quite full-on". The 65-year-old says he was glad to get home after visiting the City ...

Peter Howson has been described as a modern-day Hieronymus Bosch for his detailed and disquieting depictions of the Gospel Passion narratives, like this graphite drawing on gessoed wood of the mocking ...

A COURT has named legal guardians who will take control of the chaotic business affairs of Peter Howson, long one of the most talented – and troubled – figures in the Scottish art scene, it was ...

Two of Glasgow's most well-known painters, Peter Howson and Ross Muir, have joined forces to create a major new piece that has been revealed today. The new collaborative painting, entitled 'Two Sons', ...

A major retrospective of work by Peter Howson will offer a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to see works by the renowned painter, a curator has said. The exhibition, which opens at Edinburgh’s City ...

For Hieronymus Bosch, “only individual abnormalities, excessive individuality, caricature have any meaning,” writes Max Friedländer. “As a psychologist Bosch is one-sided to the point of monomania.

Peter Howson first emerged during the mid-1980s as part of the 'New Glasgow Boys' art movement. Fresh from the Glasgow School of Art they included a collection of lauded figurative artists that would ...

THE MUSCULAR figures and strained faces in painter Peter Howson's works have ranged from Madonna and pummelling boxers to Scotland's patron saint, St Andrew. Did you know with a Digital Subscription ...

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