Clifford How’s practice is an emotive engagement with the Australian landscape.

Grounded through the dynamic interplay of light and form and working within the framework of representational painting, Clifford How seeks to dissolve the boundary between realism and abstraction - allowing both to coexist and amplify one another within a single visual language.

Drawing from direct experience in the landscape, How frequently undertakes multi-day hikes into Tasmania’s remote and rugged terrains, seeking moments of visceral connection that inform his studio practice.

A 4th generation Tasmanian, his works are not simply representations of place, rather embodied responses to it.

How manipulates oil paint with a tactile immediacy that echoes the primal quality of the terrain he explores. The materiality of the surface - thick, textured, and sculptural - together with his minimal colour palette is integral to the reading of the work.

For How, the success of a painting lies in its ability to render the unseen - those intangible qualities of landscape that elicit feeling rather than simply describe.

Solo exhibitions.

Other work.

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