Ghislaine Howard

Ghislaine Howard was born in Eccles, Lancashire in 1953. Early promise as an artist lead to her taking art classes with Harold Riley. Her art studies included a foundation course at Manchester Polytechnic and a degree in Fine Art at the University of Newcastle. She first came to the attention of the wider art world in 1983 with "A Shared Experience" at Manchester City Art Gallery, an exhibition which looked at pregnancy and childbirth and garnered critical praise. In 2013, her drawing Pregnant Self Portrait was at the centre of a British Museum’s exhibition.

Howard's work is in The Royal Collection, Manchester Art Gallery, Whitworth Art Gallery, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, Salford Museum and Art Gallery, the BBC, Saint Mary’s Maternity Unit Manchester, The Manchester Metropolitan University, Her Majesty’s Prison Service, British Medical Association, The Methodist Modern Art Collection, and Liverpool Hope University College and shown on Art UK.