Ashley Howard studied at Medway College of Art and Design. He built a career combining teaching with making. Howard sees his own research and teaching as one role, each contributing to the other. Howard later studied for his Masters at the Royal College of Art. He has exhibited, demonstrated and lectured all over the world, spending considerable time on solo and collaborative projects in Japan and China. Howard has published articles on technical and aesthetic subjects. His achievements on the national and international stages are recognised though his membership of the International Academy for Ceramics. Howard is represented by JJ Rawlin. Writer and critic, David Whiting has said of Howard; The work of Ashley Howard remains extraordinarily fresh. He is an assured but rigorous explorer and celebrant of the past, clearly indebted to a variety of ceramic traditions, but he has been able to absorb these ideas into a very modern, resourceful and uncommonly free language of his own.