Ian Houston - Light and Time

Exhibition E-Catalogue

Ian was born in Gravesend in Kent in 1934. A talented musician, he studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1950. Soon afterwards he began a part time painting course at St Martin's School of Art and found he could combine promising careers as both concert pianist and professional painter.

He began exhibiting his work in London in 1956 and a year later while showing at the wildlife specialists Rowland Ward Gallery he met the artist Edward Seago. At the time Seago was a celebrity artist, equally popular with the man in the street and the Royal Family, he had recently returned from accompanying Prince Philip as a friend and ‘tour artist’ on a trip to the Antarctic in HMY Britannia. Seago saw great potential in the young Ian Houston and offered him encouragement from the start, in much the same way perhaps that Munnings had encouraged the young Seago. It was Seago who persuaded Ian to concentrate on landscape painting, a remarkably unselfish suggestion as it was his own speciality. Ian tells us that “Ted was enormously generous and such a nice person. He used to give me a box of paintings to copy.”

In 1964 he moved to North Walsham in Norfolk with his wife and family, where he taught art at the town high school. With Seago as an artistic godfather it was natural to gravitate to the county that had made the great man’s name and whose distinctive ‘flat’ landscapes inspired centuries of artists to subordinate land and man to its towering skies. Solo shows soon followed in Lincoln and Norwich, the latter with Mandell’s in 1974 the year of Seago’s death. The success of the Norfolk exhibition allowed him to buy the sea-going Thames Spritsail Barge “Raybell” in which he subsequently gained his Master’s Certificate. Apart from the pure pleasure in sailing it, the Raybell allowed him to immerse himself in the weather off shore around East Anglia. Particularly sea weather and traditional sail in action, adding an enormous authenticity of experience and knowledge to the depiction of his subjects that so many of his followers now lack.

His paintings have been collected worldwide for many decades and he has held solo shows Melbourne, Australia to Hong Kong. His private collectors include HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and his work is held in the corporate collections of Barclays Bank plc, Mercury Asset Management, Norwich Union, Robert Fleming Holdings Ltd, The Australian Government, The State Bank of South Australia, The Usher Gallery, Lincoln and Windsor and Newton amongst many others. He became a member of the Guild of Norwich Painters in 1994 and recently became the group’s president.

Ian is described variously as an impressionist or post-impressionist painter, he is the last in a long line of British twentieth century landscape painters that lead directly back to Munnings and Priestman, although through his association with Norfolk painting he is the spiritual heir to the more ancient heritage of Constable and the Norwich School. We are enormously proud to be associated with an artist of Ian’s artistic stature, a great living painter with a page in British painting history secured.

25 October - 10 November 2017

Panter & Hall
11-12 Pall Mall
London
SW1Y 5LU

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Monday to Friday

10.00 AM - 6.00 PM

Saturdays

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Sundays

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Ian Houston (b.1934)

Thames Ditton Reflections

oil on board

9 x 11 ins (23 x 28 cms)

£1,650

framed

Ian Houston (b.1934)

Afternoon Sunlight in Church Street Market

Mixed Media on Board

9 x 11 ins (23 x 28 cms)

£1,650

framed

Sold

Ian Houston (b.1934)

The Harbour at Barra

Mixed Media on Board

9 x 11 ins (23 x 28 cms)

£1,650

framed

Sold

Ian Houston (b.1934)

Sailing Barge Outward Bound from St Katherine's Dock

oil on board

10 x 14 ins (25 x 36 cms)

£2,000

framed

Sold

Ian Houston (b.1934)

The Estuary, Newport Bay, Pembrokeshire

oil on canvas

30 x 40 ins (76 x 102 cms)

£5,750

framed

Sold

Ian Houston (b.1934)

Cherry Tree in the Snow

oil on canvas

20 x 30 ins (51 x 76 cms)

£4,150

framed

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Ian Houston (b.1934)

Clouds Over the Norfolk Coast

Mixed Media on Board

16 x 22 ins (41 x 56 cms)

£2,950

framed

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Ian Houston (b.1934)

Waiting for the Mist to Clear

Mixed Media on Board

14 x 20 ins (36 x 51 cms)

£2,750

framed

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Ian Houston (b.1934)

An East Norfolk Village

Mixed Media on Canvas

11 x 14 ins (28 x 36 cms)

£2,200

framed

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Ian Houston (b.1934)

Sailing Vessel Leaving Portofino

Mixed Media on Board

8 x 10 ins (20 x 25 cms)

£1,550

framed

Ian Houston (b.1934)

The Trout Inn seen across the Thames

Mixed Media on Board

8 x 10 ins (20 x 25 cms)

£1,550

framed

Sold

Ian Houston (b.1934)

Village and Fields, Norfolk

Mixed Media on Board

14 x 18 ins (36 x 46 cms)

£2,650

framed

Sold

Ian Houston (b.1934)

Battersea Power Station, Study in Blue and Orange

oil on board

20 x 28 ins (51 x 71 cms)

£3,875

framed

Sold

Ian Houston (b.1934)

Street Market in Sicily

oil on board

7 x 10 ins (18 x 25 cms)

£1,350

framed

Sold

Ian Houston (b.1934)

Trees in Marshland by the Upper Thames

Mixed Media on Board

14 x 18 ins (36 x 46 cms)

£2,650

framed

Sold

Ian Houston (b.1934)

The Isle of Skye - Clouds over the Cuillins

oil on canvas

26 x 36 ins (66 x 91 cms)

£5,350

framed

Sold

Ian Houston (b.1934)

Market Stalls, Late Afternoon in Rome

Mixed Media on Board

7 x 11 ins (18 x 28 cms)

£1,550

framed

Sold

Ian Houston (b.1934)

Afternoon by the Cutty Sark, Greenwich

Mixed Media on Board

7 x 10 ins (18 x 25 cms)

£1,350

framed

Sold

Ian Houston (b.1934)

The Edge of the Wood, Norfolk in Winter

oil on canvas

26 x 36 ins (66 x 91 cms)

£5,350

framed

Sold

Ian Houston (b.1934)

Calm after a Storm, Istanbul

oil on board

11 x 14 ins (28 x 36 cms)

£2,200

framed

Sold

Ian Houston (b.1934)

Winter Landscape at Salthouse

Mixed Media on Board

14 x 20 ins (36 x 51 cms)

£2,750

framed

Sold

Ian Houston (b.1934)

Weather Bound in the Lower Thames

Mixed Media on Board

7 x 11 ins (18 x 28 cms)

£1,550

framed

Sold

Ian Houston (b.1934)

Hong Kong - The Waterside at Cheung Chau

oil on board

10 x 16 ins (25 x 41 cms)

£2,300

framed

Sold

Ian Houston (b.1934)

Evening Light on Bamburgh Castle

oil on board

24 x 36 ins (61 x 91 cms)

£5,100

framed

Sold

Ian Houston (b.1934)

The Thames from Richmond Hill, Winter

oil on canvas

16 x 20 ins (41 x 51 cms)

£2,900

framed

Sold

Ian Houston (b.1934)

The Amalfi Coast, Contre Jour

Mixed Media on Board

14 x 20 ins (36 x 51 cms)

£2,750

framed

Sold

Ian Houston (b.1934)

The Road to the Farm, Sunlight after Rain

Mixed Media on Board

9 x 11.25 ins (23 x 29 cms)

£1,650

framed

Sold

Ian Houston (b.1934)

Low Water at Newport, Pembrokeshire

oil on board

30 x 40 ins (76 x 102 cms)

£5,750

framed

Sold

Ian Houston (b.1934)

Evening by Chiswick Eyot

oil on board

20 x 26 ins (51 x 66 cms)

£3,600

framed

Sold

Ian Houston (b.1934)

Villefranche Waterfront

Mixed Media on Board

9 x 11 ins (23 x 28 cms)

£1,650

framed