HOUGHTON, Barrie
Barrie J. Houghton was born at Shorne, Chatham, Kent in 1941, his mother's maiden name was Brown. Barrie commenced a business career before studying painting at St Martin's School of Art and, on a scholarship, in Paris. An artist who, after travelling extensively in Europe and North Africa, returned to work as a theatre designer in Canterbury before going to a drama school to become an actor. Barrie married at Stepney, London in 1979, Loesje Vere Sanders (born September 1947), a theatrical agent. In the 1990s, Barrie resumed painting and moved to Woodbridge, Suffolk where the Simon Carter Gallery gave him a solo show in 1995 which was followed by shows at the John Russell Gallery in Ipswich and other solo shows include Fire Engine House, Ely; Laragh, Dublin; Lynne Strover Gallery, Cambridge; Taplin Gallery, Woodbridge; Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh; the Singer and Friedlander Watercolour Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London and elsewhere and has also exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Barrie has a studio at Pound Square, 1 North Hill, Woodbridge, Suffolk.
Website: http://barriehoughton.squarespace.com
Royal Academy Exhibits
from Pound Square, North Hill, Woodbridge, Suffolk
1997 959 Summer Storm, Snape – mixed media
Works by This Artist
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AugustAcrylic on canvas
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WalberswickMixed media on canvas
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Store FruitWatercolour
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PondMixed Media
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