Award winning Australian artist Meredith Howse was born in NT, Australia. Growing up in many NSW country towns and graduating from UTS in 1991, with a love of world travel influences her art to this day.
Meredith resides in sunny Queensland, working from her home studio. Meredith uses professional artist quality oil and acrylic colours and canvas.
In 2016 Meredith set out to follow the Brisbane River from its beginnings at Mt Stanley to the end at Moreton Bay, the result was a successful exhibition of 30 paintings.
In 2018, a large 90 work solo exhibition called Sublime Landscapes exhibited at the Lockyer Valley Regional Gallery, Queensland. “Inspired by the beauty of landscapes, I try to give artworks a dramatic feel, drawing the viewer into the painting. I want you to feel you are within the painting and feel the cool depths, the power charge of a incoming storm, the warmth of the sun, or the salt in the ocean air”
In 2019 Meredith completed a series of abstract paintings inspired by her childhood fascination with the colour and opalescence of Australian Opals. It was during this time, Meredith coined the words ‘Australian Freestyle’ to describe her painting style. Large, free flowing brushstrokes on large canvas, full of movement and feeling.
2020 the year of Covid 19 pandemic, Meredith continued to paint in lockdown surrounded by immediate family. This led to a period of retreat and rethinking. Motivating factors changed, more old memories returned. A grateful appreciation of all the small pleasures in life, was so much more powerful and meaningful. It evolved into a new series of abstract landscapes called The Colours of Texas series.
Meredith is an Established Seller on Bluethumb, one of Bluethumb’s Top 30 Best Sellers in 2020. In 2021 Meredith’s Artwork featured on Channel 9’s The Block. A finalist in the Art Lovers Australia Art Prize 2021 and 2022 and co-creator of the The Tower Art Show, Ashgrove. Meredith has participated in 100+ group exhibitions, and continues to encourage an inspire others with a love of art.
Recent Exhibitions
2022 The Tower Art Show, Ashgrove
2022 Art Lovers Australia Collectors Edition Art Exhibition, Gold Coast.
2022 Aspects Art Show, Goondiwindi
2022 The Doyles Gold Coast
2021 Channel 9’s The Block
2019 The Tower At Show, Ashgrove
2018 Mission to Seafarers Art Award, Mission to Seafarers, Melbourne
2018 d’Arcy Doyle Art Award, Mudgerabah Community Hall
2018 Aspects Art Exhibition, Goondiwindi
2018 Brisbane Institute of Art Members Exhibition, BIA Albion
2018 Marist Ashgrove Art Show, Marist Ashgrove College
2018 Stuartholme School Art show, Brisbane
2018 Solo – ‘Sublime Landscapes’, Lockyer Valley Regional Art Gallery
2018 Towoomba Grammar Art Show, Towoomba
2017 Rotary Art Spectacular, Brisbane
2017 Great Lake Annual Art Award, ForsterArt Gallery
2017 Milburn Art Award, Brisbane Institute of Art, Albion
2017 Gold Coast Show, Surfers Paradise
2016 ‘Brisbane River Series’ , Petrie Terrace Gallery, Brisbane
2016 Queensland Bi-Annual Figurative Art Prize, Petrie Terrace Gallery
2016 ‘Town and Country’, RQAS Brisbane
A selection of Meredith’s work
