Jeremy Houghton

This is the first time we have shown prints from Jeremy Houghton.

Artist Details:Jeremy Houghton came relatively late into the art world having initially embarked on a legal career. Then after a stint at the Slade, eight years teaching, five of which as head of art at the International School of Cape Town, he returned to England in 2005 and has since been painting full-time from his studio in Broadway in the Cotswolds.

Much like most serious art, Houghton's paintings are about art itself. Diverse subject matter and mixed media are used to depict the process of painting itself, resulting in image making which provides instant visual indulgence. Houghton's watercolours portray timelessness. They are sensitive, simple, traditional yet current, and often compared to old photgraphs. His oils are an exercise of composition, form, balance and technique, successfully played out before and for our eyes, resulting in pictures which are alive and uplifting.

Jeremy's ethos is based on capturing an expression, his philosophy is simplification. What you see in a Houghton painting is the artist's emotional response to a scene, simplified and distilled into essentials, a process of elimination. However, his paintings, for all their freedom, are carefully masterminded - everything in place.

Daring to be figurative in a age of abstraction, Houghton's work flirts with romanticism, embraces expressionism, and tempts with a rare visceral display of prolific artistry.