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Ian Houston BIOGRAPHY
1934 Gravesend, Kent - 2021. Known for: Painting.
Ian Houston was born in Gravesend in Kent in 1934. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1950. He also began a part time painting course at St Martin's School of Art, combining... Read full biography
Ian Houston was born in Gravesend in Kent in 1934. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1950. He also began 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... Read full biography
Ian Houston was born in Gravesend in Kent in 1934. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1950. He also began 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. Houston's paintings... Read full biography
Ian Houston was born in Gravesend in Kent in 1934. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1950. He also began 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. Houston's 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... Read full biography
Ian Houston was born in Gravesend in Kent in 1934. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1950. He also began 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. Houston's 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... Read full biography
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Ian Houston was born in Gravesend in Kent in 1934.
He studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1950. He also began 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.
Houston's 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 E...But wait, there's more...
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