Peter Howson, O.B.E.

b. 1958

A Scottish painter, Howson studied at the Glasgow School of Art 1975–7 and 1979–81, and was one of the central figures in the school of Scottish figurative painting that rose to prominence in the 1980s. Howson was appointed an Official War Artist in Bosnia in 1993. He was awarded the Henry Moore Foundation Prize in[…]