Daryl Howard Art

"The technique of woodblock printmaking is part of my soul. After thirty years of sketching, carving and printing, I am still as excited as I was when I pulled my first print with Hodaka Yoshida in Tokyo. The textural thread within my collage work leads from one collage to the next. There is something magic about using the elements of the planet: gold, silver, copper , gemstones and pigments made from soils. My collage work connects and grounds me to the earth. These processes have become my way of expressing my world. It involves seeing images through a series of shapes, arranged and colored to represent the essence ... the magic... that I experience. --Daryl

A native Texan, Daryl resides on a 50-acre ranch outside of Austin, Daryl is represented internationally and exhibits nationally. The artist is inspired by Native American philosophy and design as well as her travels which take her from Arizona and New Mexico to Indonesia, Europe, Mexico, Greece, China, Japan and Egypt.

After receiving her BFA from Sam Houston State University, Daryl lived and taught art at an overseas school in Tokyo in the 1970's. During this time Howard was introduced to a private collection of 18th and 19th century Ukiyo-e woodcuts by Claude Holeman, who became mentor and friend. Feeling an immediate connection to the works of art and wanting to learn more about the woodblock printing process, Daryl embarked on an apprenticeship with Hodaka Yoshida, a Japanese master printmaker. By the time she left Japan, Howard had become proficient in the medium, well on her way to perfecting the painstaking demands of carving and printing. Immediately returning to graduate school in 1976 at the University of Texas at Austin, she began her experience with a second medium, mixed media collage.

Daryl's work in mixed media collage incorporates hand-made papers, gemstones, metallic leaf and earth pigments. Recent work reflects a return to her beginnings by utilizing segments of antique Japanese woodblock prints within her collage. Daryl's collage process is evolutionary - each piece builds and layers into the next.