Byron Howard

8th June 2010 page updated.
If you are interested in any of Byron's work please phone the gallery on 01947 893289 or email us via the website.  Don't forget that we operate the Arts Council's own art scheme, an interest free credit arrangement, but a maximum of £2000 may be borrowed.

Byron Howard lives at Thorne, near Doncaster, and works from his home, Travis Studio.

Byron is a master sculptor of international reputation and his work is held in both private and public collections.  Much of his work is produced using the lost wax method, which has been used by sculptors for thousands of years.  Models are made in beeswax, coated with reinforced layers of clay, and after firing the wax melts away leaving a cavity into which the molten bronze is poured.  The clay shell breaks away to reveal the casting for finishing (fettling).

One of his most well known commissions is his sculpture of the conductor Sir John Barbirolli, which stands outside the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.  Byron is a self-effacing artist who does not dwell on his achievements, "my work is not about who I am, but about what I do - it stands on its own".

View Byron's sculpture of Barbirolli outside Manchester's Bridgewater Hall