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Downsview, Pett Lane, Charing, Ashford, TN27 0DL, United Kingdom
Malcolm Horton qualified with a City of London firm of chartered accountants and spent 20 years in industry and commerce with companies such as Beck & Pollitzer, Esso Petroleum, and BOC International. He was also chief executive of the printers Williams Lea and Westerham Press before setting up his own accountancy practice and publishers Contemporary Watercolours and Oakweald
His eight previous books are Watercolours in Academe, Oxford Watercolours, Cambridge Watercolours, Potraits of British Schools, Vision Oxford and Cambridge Watercolours, Sauntering through Kent (A Biography of Sir Charles Igglesden), Unknown Oxford.
He is a regular contributor to "Bygone Kent". He was a borough councillor in Bexley for four years. His hobbies include walking, writing, supporting Charlton Athletic. He has three children and four stepchildren and lives in Charing, Kent with his wife Lenny.
18 October 2023, 12.30 PM - 2.30 PM
The Concert Artist Club, 20 Bedford Street.
Covent Garden, London WC2E 9HP.
A book has been produced “Ken Howard Watercolours in Academe” which is a tribute to my late husband based on a diary Malcolm Horton kept during a weeklong visit to the “University of the South” in Tennessee, where Ken had gone to fulfill a commission to produce three watercolours of that beautiful university.
The Tennessee commission was part of an arts/alumni project Ken took part in to raise money for the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge and leading Independent Schools.
Ken produced a total of 21 paintings for this project in the 1990s.These are all in this book plus ten oil paintings of Venice, Cornwall and London and the famous crucifixion painting in Northern Ireland which accompany the obituary extracts, and fellow artist tributes.
The diary encapsulates many of the aspects of Ken that went to make up the unique person who was my dear husband for twenty two years.
All profits from the sale of this book will go to the PSPA (Progressive SupernuclearPalsy) Charity, the condition from which my husband died.
The book containts 31 of Ken’s paintings plus photographs taken in Tennessee. Text is by Malcolm Horton the fine art publisher/historian and contains 84 pages and is priced at £25 Hardback.- Copies may be obtained by contacting Malcolm Horton on malcolmchorton@gmail.com
These watercolours have been specially commisioned in conjuction with colleges concerned from members of the Royal Watercolours Society and Royal Academy.
Jane Carpanini RWS, RBA, RWA., John Doyle MBE, PPRWS., Dennis Flanders RWS, RBA., Professor Ken Howard OBE, RA, RWS. and Dennis Roxby Bott RWS.
It has been decided to make these works available as high quality prints, limited to 350/500 copies each. The size approximately 12”x18” and each is signed and numbered by the Artist. The prints are priced £49.50 each (incld. P&P) and supplied in stout cardboard tubes and can be ordered from malcolmchorton@gmail.com
Downsview, Pett Lane, Charing, Ashford, TN27 0DL, United Kingdom