John Houston

1930-2008
John Houston

John Houston (1930–2008) was one of the great painterly forces in modern Scottish art, celebrated for a bold, expressive approach to landscape that combined instinctive draughtsmanship with a profound emotional response to place. Born and brought up in Buckhaven, Fife, Houston’s early life was shaped by the coastal landscape of the East Neuk, where changing weather, estuary light and the rhythms of rural and fishing life formed the foundations of his visual imagination. Horse fairs, football crowds, harbours, fields and shoreline villages would continue to surface throughout his career, transformed through paint into works of immense vitality and atmosphere.

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Edge of the Lake, c.1969●

oil on board
H:26cm W:34cm
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Storm over the Sea, Harris, c.1974●

oil on canvas
H:51cm W:61cm
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Flower in a Landscape, c.1967●

oil on canvas
H:30.5cm W:30.5cm
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Lake Constance, 1971●

oil on canvas board
H:13.5cm W:43cm
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Shrine, Kyoto, 1998-99●

oil on board
H:34cm W:34cm
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Wave Breaking, Evening, 1985●

watercolour on paper
H:31.5cm W:31cm
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Fife Landscape from Colinsburgh●

watercolour on paper
H:22cm W:38cm
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Path to the Sea, Evening, 1978●

oil on canvas
H:20.5cm W:25.5cm
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Evening Sea, Gullane Bay, 1985●

oil on board
H:30.5cm W:35.5cm
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Sunset Kilconquhar, 1970-71●

oil on canvas
H:49.5cm W:49.5cm
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Elizabeth and Black Cat, c.1975●

oil on canvas
H:33cm W:23cm
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Evening, Dieppe, 1979●

watercolour
H:20cm W:27.5cm
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Poppies and Lilac, 1983●

oil on canvas
H:102cm W:61cm
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Sea and Sky, Crail, 2003●

watercolour on paper
H:13.5cm W:19cm
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Dark Sky and Dunes, c.2003●

watercolour on paper
H:16cm W:20cm
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Flowers at a Window, Summer, 1989●

oil on canvas
H:91.5cm W:101.5cm
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Sunset, Dieppe II●

oil on canvas
H:22cm W:34cm
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Sunflowers, 1965-66●

oil on canvas
H:101cm W:75cm
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Sunset and Moor, c.1967●

oil on canvas
H:25cm W:35.5cm
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Bass Rock, 1980●

watercolour
H:18.5cm W:29cm
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Sun, Sea and Sky, 2004●

watercolour
H:14cm W:18cm
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Woman Sleeping●

H:76cm W:101cm
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After the Storm, 1974●

watercolour
H:40.5cm W:40.5cm
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Sunset, Arisaig, 2004-2005●

oil on canvas
H:35.5cm W:40.5cm
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Sunset, Arisaig, 2001●

watercolour
H:14.5cm W:19.5cm
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Bass Rock and Winter Sea, 2003●

watercolour
H:13.5cm W:18.5cm
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East Lothian Sunset, 1978●

watercolour on japanese paper
H:60cm W:90cm
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Tulips, Red and Yellow, c.1975●

oil on canvas
H:36cm W:25.5cm
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Still Life with Grapes●

oil on board
H:24cm W:34.5cm
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Table in a Landscape, c.1962●

gouache
H:17.5cm W:23cm
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Summer, Gullane, 1994●

watercolour
H:20cm W:28cm
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Tobermory●

charcoal
H:43cm W:70cm
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Towards the Bass Rock, 2005●

oil on canvas
H:101.5cm W:101.5cm
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Seashore with Sunset Sky●

oil on board
H:21cm W:44.5cm
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Sunset and Sea●

watercolour
H:13cm W:18.5cm
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Autumn in Fife, 2005●

oil on canvas
H:30.5cm W:45.5cm
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Bass Rock and Sun●

watercolour
H:12.5cm W:17.5cm
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Seascape Cobalt Blue●

oil on canvas board
H:25.5cm W:23cm
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Evening Sky●

oil on board
H:20cm W:20cm
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Sunset over the Sea, 1971-72●

oil on canvas
H:102cm W:111cm
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Indian Summer, Wisconsin, 1969●

Oil on canvas
H:25.5cm W:30.5cm
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Anemones in a Yellow Vase●

Oil on canvas
H:76cm W:61cm
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Le Pouldu, 1981●

watercolour and gouache on paper
H:42cm W:58.5cm
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Summer, Ile de Brehat, c. 1978●

Oil on canvas
H:86.5cm W:81cm
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Piazza in the Snow, Anticoli, 1954●

watercolour and gouache on paper
H:31cm W:46.5cm
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Flowers in a Room (ii)●

oil on canvas
H:61cm W:50.5cm
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