Howard Taylor (painter)

Howard Taylor AM D.Litt (29 August 1918 – 19 July 2001) was a painter, potter, graphic artist and teacher of art in Perth, Western Australia.

[2] In 1946 he returned to England, where he married Sheila Smith and enrolled as a part-time student at the Birmingham College of Art, studying under Bernard Fleetwood-Walker.

In September the same year he had a one-man exhibition at Newspaper House, Perth[4] which was favourably reviewed.

[3] A tempera painting "Stumps and Ash" entered for a competition run by the Perth Art Gallery in 1951 was highly praised.

[5] That same year he commenced teaching part-time at the Perth Technical College,[6] where he continued until 1965, when he secured a part-time position with the School of Architecture and Planning, Western Australian Institute of Technology, where he remained for four years, teaching painting, drawing and sculpture.