introducing the 2021 poster artist
The 40th Annual Downtown Festival & Art Show is proud to present this year’s poster and T-shirt image by Gainesville artist Steve Howell. Howell has been a full time, non-supported studio potter since 1983. He first ``fell in love with pottery'' upon meeting his roommate, a potter, while stationed at an Air Force base in Texas. The entire apartment was decorated with pots, wall to wall, floor to ceiling. That was the beginning of Howell's enchantment with ceramics.
Howell's designs are influenced by current trends as well as popular painters of the turn-of-the-century especially Mattise and use of colors. Howell is also strongly impressed by early Japanese pottery, particularly the ``Amari'' style and his work has been exhibited in Japan. His latest venture channels his love of basket weaving. He expertly weaves strips of copper into intricate pieces including boat sculptures and reliquaries.
His work has been recognized with multiple awards at art shows around the country including the Walt Disney Festival of the Masters. He has contributed to group and solo exhibitions and is included in numerous museum and private collections. Howell is eager to share his techniques with art students and devotees of his work and loves to teach short intensive workshops in the U.S. and abroad.
According to Howell, his deepest desire is ``to truly understand myself and the process that I have been shown. I hope I can bring the two together and devote my whole life to behaving creatively.”
See more of Howell's work and follow him at https://www.facebook.com/SteveHowellPottery/
Howell's designs are influenced by current trends as well as popular painters of the turn-of-the-century especially Mattise and use of colors. Howell is also strongly impressed by early Japanese pottery, particularly the ``Amari'' style and his work has been exhibited in Japan. His latest venture channels his love of basket weaving. He expertly weaves strips of copper into intricate pieces including boat sculptures and reliquaries.
His work has been recognized with multiple awards at art shows around the country including the Walt Disney Festival of the Masters. He has contributed to group and solo exhibitions and is included in numerous museum and private collections. Howell is eager to share his techniques with art students and devotees of his work and loves to teach short intensive workshops in the U.S. and abroad.
According to Howell, his deepest desire is ``to truly understand myself and the process that I have been shown. I hope I can bring the two together and devote my whole life to behaving creatively.”
See more of Howell's work and follow him at https://www.facebook.com/SteveHowellPottery/
