With Jonah Jones and Meic Watts, Howard Bowcott formed the Moelwyn Group in 1989 to exhibit at the second Cricieth Festival. He is a sculptor specialising in public art projects and private commissions who considers his artwork to be “about touch. As a sculptor I touch a material and help it to come alive to human interaction… the catalyst for reconnection with our environment.”
Based in Eryri, he works on public arts and regeneration projects as both designer and hands-on sculptor. His artwork links sculpture with the regeneration of the public realm, landscape and urban design.
Frequently his sculptures grow through the careful building up of layers. “Split the fine layers of a stone and you open the earth’s pages, the first to read that history. Stack the layers and you build new stories, new shapes and new interpretations.” His inspiration comes from the underlying stories of place, and from the natural forms and processes evident in the specifics of a given landscape.
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Award-winning project by Howard Bowcott at Blaunau Ffestiniog: “Four large pillars of slate stand 7.5 metres high, drawing visitors from the Ffestiniog Railway and Network Rail stations onto the high street. Reminiscent of the triangular chisels used to split slates, the courses are laid at 30 degrees to echo the angle of the slate beds in the mountains rising above the site. Embedded in the courses of slates are quarrying terms and phrases from local poets.”