Formerly a full-time art teacher, Peggy Howe made Charleston her home 40 years ago in order to be an artist. These days, she works from her Mount Pleasant home studio with a view, which was rebuilt after Hurricane Hugo.
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A studio art and art history graduate of Mary Washington College, Howe finds landscape painting good for the soul, but her passion lies in the figure. “Charleston has been chal- lenging for me as public and institutional taste chose to bar the figure from public view at times,” says Howe, who teaches figure-drawing classes at the Artist’s Loft School in Mount Pleasant. “Happily, that is not the current situation, and I shall show nudes in Marion Square for Spoleto.”
Though Howe is currently
figure drawing, that will change for the summer as she travels to Alaska in her RV, nicknamed Color Wheels, painting and drawing along the way. Howe’s works are in several public collections, including that of the Gibbes Museum of Art. You can visit her studio by appointment.
