About Alyson Howard

I was born with a thumb in my mouth and a paintbrush in my hand.  My earliest memories are of complicated drawings and lots of crafting. I was created to create. This has always been a battle between what I want to do and what I should be doing in the constructs of career and life. But my art is deeper than that, it is my medicine, my freedom and my counselor. 

In my artist career which has commercially spanned over 30 years, I have sold works to collectors all across the globe. I have worked with interior designers and rolled out 45 of the same painting for a hotel in Birmingham and a series for a leisure centre. My artwork has been produced for homeware and clothing.

In the last few years, I had the honour to work with Buckingham Fine Art Publishers, where my paintings adorned high-end galleries around the country. Unfortunately, in recent I have been battling health conditions and have physical restrictions on the amount of time I can now dedicate to painting, so I am back working as an independent artist balancing my art and my health.

My soul has always yearned to be free. Throughout my life, I’ve resisted the rules and structures that felt like cages—barriers that suppressed my true identity and self-expression. For years, I sought freedom in the external world: traveling to distant places, losing myself in music and movement, chasing fleeting moments of euphoria. But those escapes were temporary, and I always found myself returning to the same emotional place.

Music is my muse juxtaposed with nature. It guides my movement, stirs deep emotion, and evokes waves of natural euphoria through the release of dopamine. Each frequency finds expression through colour, texture, and rhythm on the canvas. My work becomes a visual symphony—a harmonious blend of sound, soul, and spirit—capturing the raw energy of music intertwined with my deep studies of the natural world.

Feeling liberated—from thought, from expectation, from the noise. I painted from a place beyond the mind, engulfed in pure subconscious creativity. These works are not just paintings—they are portals. A visual representation of my subconscious mind, expansive and limitless, inviting the viewer to travel beyond the physical into another dimension.