The Arts Society Fylde Monthly Lecture

Michael is a familiar face to The Arts Society Fylde. His first visit was in November 2010, when he ran a Study Day on L.S. Lowry: A Visionary Artist. In December 2011 he gave a lecture on The Journey Of The Magi. In September 2019, we organised an excursion to his wife's – Ghislaine Howard – studio, who has also lectured at The Arts Society Fylde. .

Michael is President of The Arts Society Bolton and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Although retired, he continues to teach at the Manchester School of Art. He has published widely on European art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, his books include: L. S. Lowry: A Visionary Artist; The Impressionists by Themselves; The Stations of the Cross / The Captive Figure and the award-winning dramatic interpretation and publication of material originally performed by the Zurich-based Dadaists of 1916. A New Order: An Evening at the Cabaret Voltaire. His book on Gauguin was written in association with the Gauguin Museum, Tahiti, and his book on Monet for the Musée Marmottan, Paris. One of his most recent books concerns his wife's life and work: The Human Touch: Ghislaine Howard. (Ghislaine is also an accredited lecturer of The Arts Society).