UPCOMING SOLO EXhibITION
13 NOVEMBER - 5 DECEMBER 2026
Clifford How is a Tasmanian landscape painter whose work is shaped by deep immersion in the island’s most elemental environments, from its wind scoured alpine interior to its rugged, weather beaten coastlines. His practice is grounded in physical experience: long hikes across high country, solitary encounters with remote shorelines, and a sustained engagement with the forces that define these places. Using palette knives and other tactile tools, he builds layered, sculptural surfaces that echo the geology and atmosphere of the terrain itself. Rather than offering literal depictions, How’s paintings evoke the emotional resonance of place, the weight of mist, the force of coastal winds, the quiet tension of shifting weather. Through these layered terrains, he captures the fleeting, often unseen qualities that define Tasmania’s wild interior and its dramatic edges.
Across more than fifteen solo exhibitions nationally, How has developed a distinctive visual language. A restrained palette of mauves, grey greens, bone tones and blacks allows texture and surface to carry emotional weight, with the paint becoming both image and object. His works move between glacial tarns, dolerite escarpments, tidal shelves and exposed headlands, distilling these landscapes into moments where time, weather and memory converge.
How’s work has been widely recognised, with multiple national art awards, including the Hornsby Art Prize (Winner, 2018), the Wrest Point Art Award (Winner, 2017), and the TASART Award (Winner, 2016). He has been a two‑time finalist in the Glover Prize, and his practice has been profiled in Artist Profile and featured in Amber Creswell Bell’s A Painted Landscape (Thames & Hudson, 2018). In 2019 he was appointed an International Ambassador for Michael Harding Oils.