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  1. Visualcy: the progenitor of literacy and numeracy

    Article • Journal of Visual Literacy, January 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  2. The Drive to Draw: Perceptual Attention and Communicative Intention

    Article • Leonardo, August 2023, The MIT Press

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  3. Drawing matters

    Article • Art Design & Communication in Higher Education, April 2022, Intellect

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  4. Egological meets ecological: Drawing aspects in perspective(s)

    Article • Drawing Research Theory Practice, December 2021, Intellect

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  5. A contemporary pedagogy of drawing

    Article • Journal of Visual Art Practice, October 2021, Intellect

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  6. The case for the primacy of visualcy within a neoliberal Artschool curriculum

    Article • Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, February 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  7. Drawing as central to visual arts pedagogy.

    Article • Drawing Research Theory Practice, November 2019, Intellect

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  8. Drawing explained as a language, using systemic-functional semiotics.

    Article • Journal of Visual Art Practice, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  9. Aesthetic cognitivism: Towards a concise case for doctoral research through practices in the visual arts

    Article • Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, February 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  10. Teaching drawing in art schools

    Article • Drawing Research Theory Practice, November 2017, Intellect

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  11. How drawing can enhance creativity in art students.

    Article • International Journal of Art & Design Education, October 2017, Wiley

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  12. Are portrait artists superior face recognizers? Limited impact of adult experience on face recognition ability.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  13. Drawing practice informed by perception and communication theories.

    Article • Art & Perception, December 2016, Brill

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  14. Introduction

    Article • Journal of Visual Art Practice, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  15. INTERPRETING PICTURES: A SYSTEMIC-FUNCTIONAL SEMIOTIC MODEL FOR VISUAL IMAGERY

    Article • December 2015, International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS/AIS)

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  16. Scratching the surface: Practice, personality, approaches to learning, and the acquisition of high-level representational drawing ability.

    Article • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, November 2015, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  17. Drawing on the right side of the brain: A voxel-based morphometry analysis of observational drawing

    Article • NeuroImage, August 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  18. Channels of vision and the poetics of drawing: Strategies for teaching

    Article • Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, July 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  19. Drawing and emerging research: The acquisition of experiential knowledge through drawing as a methodological strategy

    Article • Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, July 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  20. Multimodal Epistemologies

    Article • May 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Christine Christie, Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  21. Cain’s house task revisited and revived: Extending theory and methodology for quantifying drawing accuracy.

    Article • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, May 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  22. A comparison between Chinese and European systems of geometry in drawings of landscape.

    Article • Chinese Semiotic Studies, January 2014, De Gruyter

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley, Dr amanda roberts

  23. Drivers of Creativity

    Article • The International Journal of Arts Education, January 2014, Common Ground Publishing

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  24. The Gendered Image

    Article • The International Journal of the Image, January 2014, Common Ground Publishing

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  25. Local processing enhancements associated with superior observational drawing are due to enhanced perceptual functioning, not weak central coherence

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, July 2013, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  26. Visual art and social structure: the social semiotics of relational art

    Article • Visual Communication, April 2013, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  27. The social semiotic potential of gestural drawing

    Article • Journal of Visual Art Practice, August 2012, Intellect

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  28. Editorial statement to contextualize the papers from the Drawing Symposium held at Swansea Metropolitan University, 18 November 2011

    Article • Journal of Visual Art Practice, August 2012, Intellect

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  29. ‘Drawing: Land and Sky’, interview with Mary-Ann Kokoska on the occasion of her exhibition at the Elysium Gallery, Swansea

    Article • Journal of Visual Art Practice, August 2012, Intellect

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  30. Making an essay: Inclusive learning, a new assessment for visual learners

    Article • Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, December 2011, Intellect

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  31. On the structure of textual and visual dissertations

    Article • Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, December 2011, Intellect

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  32. Does Shape Constancy Relate to Drawing Ability? Two Failures to Replicate

    Article • Empirical Studies of the Arts, July 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  33. Relational Art as Social Semiotic

    Article • The International Journal of the Arts in Society Annual Review, January 2011, Common Ground Publishing

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  34. Art students who cannot draw: Exploring the relations between drawing ability, visual memory, accuracy of copying, and dyslexia.

    Article • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, February 2010, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  35. Making Sense of Art

    Article • The International Journal of the Arts in Society Annual Review, January 2009, Common Ground Publishing

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  36. An Art Pedagogy for a Changing Art world

    Article • The International Journal of the Arts in Society Annual Review, January 2008, Common Ground Publishing

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  37. Beyond the horizon: future directions for the teaching of visual arts practice

    Article • Journal of Visual Art Practice, May 2007, Intellect

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  38. The multimodal matrix – a laboratory of devices: film and the Formalist legacy

    Article • March 2007, Intellect

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  39. A review of Gray & Malins book, 'Visualising Research...'

    Article • The Design Journal, November 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  40. Perceptual Modes, Semiotic Codes, Social Mores: A Contribution towards a Social Semiotics of Drawing

    Article • Visual Communication, October 2004, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  41. Review of book on digital art.

    Article • Visual Communication, June 2004, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  42. Drawing as a means of ‘firing practice’, empowering students’ ways of seeing.

    Article • Journal of Visual Art Practice, November 2002, Intellect

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley

  43. Strategy for teaching drawing.

    Article • International Journal of Art & Design Education, October 2002, Wiley

    Professor Emeritus Howard Riley