* IAN HOUSTON (BRITISH b 1934 - )
SUNLIGHT THROUGH CLOUDS, MACAU
oil on canvas, signed; titled verso
31cm x 46cm
Framed.
Note: Ian Houston was born in Gravesend in Kent in 1934. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1950 as well as beginning a part time painting course at St Martin's School of Art combining promising careers as both concert pianist and professional painter. He began exhibiting his work in London in 1956 and then met the artist Edward Seago, who saw great potential in Ian’s work and offered him encouragement as well as persuading Ian to concentrate on landscape painting. His paintings have been collected worldwide for many decades and he has held solo shows in Melbourne, Australia and 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 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. It's rare for any of Houston's Macau or Hong Kong paintings to appear at a UK auction. A typical gallery price for this painting would be in excess of £2500.