Stations of the Cross: The Captive Figure

Ghislaine Howard was named as a ‘Woman of The Year 2008-9’ for her contribution to art and society. She is a nationally acclaimed artist whose paintings deal with the human figure, charting and recording our shared human experience.

The Stations of the Cross / The Captive Figure sequence is the result of ten years sustained exploration of a powerful subject which is at once religious and secular in character.

They were first seen at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral in 2000 and since then they have toured British cathedrals returning to Liverpool for the Capital of Culture celebrations in 2008 when Howard created a major new work, The Empty Tomb which is now permanently on view at the Cathedral.

Ghislaine has work in many public and private collections including The Royal Collection and runs the Ghislaine Howard Studio Gallery in Glossop, Derbyshire

‘These significant and powerful works focus upon the issue of deliberate and degrading treatment inflicted upon the prisoner . . . this sequence opens up opportunities to highlight and explore the issue of torture and the plight of victims of oppression all over the world’

Dan Jones, Amnesty International UK

'Ghislaine Howard’s images are compelling, powerful, and emphatic. They are unusual in that they communicate man’s inhumanity to man to the art lover and lay person alike. These are very important paintings that transcend the limitations of the gallery space to speak to us all.'

Dr. Helen Bamber, director / founder of the Medical Foundation for the Victims

'Ghislaine Howard’s Stations have a passionate roughness that seems supremely right for the pain and confusion of the Passion.'

Sister Wendy Beckett