About Chris
Chris Howard was born the son of an Native American Mother in the shadows of the Great Smoky Mountains where music and art are a way of life. His roots in Tennessee can be dated back to 1792 on his father side. His maternal grandmother came to Tennessee during the 1940’s to work for the government as a decoder during the Manhattan Project . Born with a wonderful talent, he began to cultivate it at an early age and since 1998, he has devoted himself full time to his art. He began carving wildlife and soon graduated into realistic sculpting which is now his specialty. He has been a cabinet-maker, as well as designer and builder of homes, worked for several major motion picture companies in the U.S., Europe and South America on projects such as Cannes Film Festival, MIP, and NAPTE.. While in Europe, he studied design and visual art. Chris loves the freedom sculpting gives him. Capturing the complexity of the human face with expression can be seen from his smallest to the full life size sculptures. You will know Chris when you meet him with his warm southern manner, long hair, white cowboy hat and an accent that testifies of his mountain upbringing.
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Artist statement
Conformity inhibits Creativity
Take what you know, what you feel and then create. It takes everything
that's happened in your life for you to see reality as it exist for you
at this moment, with this knowledge we can create "our art". To me art
is creation born from emotion. Delacroix once said "painting is a bridge
between the thought of the painter and the thought of the observer" this
can be said of all art from music to sculpture. True art does not have
to be anatomically correct but control of your medium has to be achieved
and it should move people in some way whether to laugh, cry, or wonder.
I believe everyone is born with a seed of talent its up to us to
discover and cultivate this seed, "excellence is never achieved without
devotion".