About my dad - David Howorth (senior)

David Howorth is Shropshire born and studied at Shrewsbury and Liverpool Colleges of Art and Liverpool University gaining a B.A. in sculpture and a Post-Graduate teaching diploma.  In 1984, latterly at Tenbury Wells, he opted for self-employment and more opportunities to be directly creative.  He is frequently a visiting artist in various schools and continues to believe in the importance of drawing for his students and for his own work.

David is currently exhibiting at Castlegate House Gallery in Cockermouth until the end of September and has an exhibition at the Silk Top Hat Gallery, Quality Square, Ludlow starting on 8th September 2007.

David Howorth's garden sculptures are made of gas-welded steel and then galvanised by dipping them in hot liquid zinc.  They are then etched down to a dull lead finish which they retain.  This makes them thoroughly weatherproofed and in fact they are much enhanced by an outdoor setting where the changing seasons and visiting wildlife help them to evolve a life of their own.

In recent years David Howorth has completed commissions for a number of garden pieces: a dragon astride the ridge of a summer house (featured in 'Perspectives on Architecture'), a rook on its nest perched on the apex of a garden roof, a gathering of sinewy fairies on a cluster of toadstools over which water trickled, a bird-bath presided over by a kingfisher, and some life-size watchful herons.  The majority of the work is for private homes and gardens, sometimes including animals and birds but mostly relating to the human figure, observed, imagined or re-invented as fairies or other mythical beings.

He has completed 'The Dancer' a steel sculpture at Earls High School, Halesowen, the culmination of an exciting project entitled 'Dance through the Eyes of a Sculptor' working with the dance and art departments of the school.  This led to another commission for a life-size dancing female form for Kings School Tettenhall.  For H.R.H. the Prince of Wales he created a metre high rooster as a finial to a fantasy chicken-house (designed by Richard Craven) at Highgrove.

His largest commission to date was a thirty-five foot high clock tower in Highley completed with assistance from artist blacksmith Peter Crownshaw.  Based on the traditional mining industry of the area, it represents the winding mechanism and cage with a life-size miner.