A day like any other
Sophie Gannon Gallery
19 Sep 2025 – 03 Oct 2025
Rob Howe is an artist based in the Illawarra/Dharawal region on the New South Wales south coast. His work honours the qualities of a scene, exploring that which may be unnoticed. His works are evocative rather than realistic, energised by a complex play of light and colour, the tilt of a tree or telegraph pole, the smudge of a horizontal shadow.
People inhabit these spaces, tenderly portrayed in brush, the edges of their form enveloped by the light filled settings. His portraits communicate an impression where the space between the viewer and the subject is set at a neighbourly distance. The essence is captured, the superfluous edited out – what painter Fairfield Porter might describe as "a respect for things as they are".
Howe approaches realism with an abstract brush. His exterior portraits are awash in Australian sunlight, almost squinting to bring you into focus. We have our space and they have theirs.
- Tony Mighell, 2024
Rob HoweMaria Island 2022oil on board24.5 x 32.5 cm●●
Rob HoweGreen Pyjamas 2023oil on board24.5 x 32 cm$1,550.00
Rob HoweAlts Bandai 2024oil on board25.5 x 32.5 cm$1,550.00
Rob HoweCemetary 2021oil board30 x 39 cm$1,650.00
Rob HowePoint 2021oil on board28 x 39.5 cm$1,650.00
Rob HoweSupermoon 2024oil on board45 x 40 cm$2,450.00
Rob HoweMarion Gum 2021oil on board43 x 54 cm$2,600.00
Rob HoweJune 2020oil on board40.5 x 54 cm$2,600.00
Rob HoweKembla St Brush Box 2020oil on board46 x 61 cm$3,100.00
Rob HoweGreen House Afternoon 2022oil on board52.5 x 81.5 cm$3,500.00
Rob HoweMarion 2021oil on board52 x 80 cm●●
Rob HoweSandon 2022oil on board59.5 x 81.5 cm$3,600.00
Rob HoweSouth Coast Beach and Pines 2024oil on board85 x 117 cm$5,950.00
Rob HoweWaniora 2024oil on board83 x 117 cm$5,950.00