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His watercolour for the Mouton Rothschild 1982 label is one of the last pictures he ever painted. Sensual, graceful, using deep, warm colours, it returns in representational style to the symbolic theme of the Ram, leaping in dionysiac joy, accompanied by its inseparable companions, the sun and the vine. View the labels.
The style of his early paintings was expressive and semi-abstract, but in the late 1960s his paintings became more atmospheric, influenced by Turner and American Abstract Expressionism. One of Houston's favourite subjects was the sea as he was captivated by its restless energy.
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Huston’s two most ambitious paintings were the portrait of his tall, actressdaughter, Anjelica (no date) and The Spirit of St. Clarens (1960s). Anjelica, her elongated body in sharp profile, appears with long black hair and long black dress, and emerges from a cloudy blue background.
John Houston was a Scottish Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1930. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Royal Scottish Academy have featured John Houston's work in the past.
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John Houston (1930–2008) Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, mima. Painter and teacher, born in Buckhaven, Fife, married to the artist Elizabeth Blackadder. Houston studied at Edinburgh College of Art, 1948–54, his final year being spent in Italy on a travelling scholarship.
