About Ralph Waterhouse

  • Biography

    The following, submitted February 2003, is from Diane Waterhouse, wife of the artist:

    Ralph Waterhouse was born in England in 1943 and began a professional painting career in 1973. He painted wildlife subjects in natural environment and had work published in the1980s in the United Kingdom by the Royal Society for Protection of Birds and the World Wildlife Fund.

    He emigrated to the United States in the mid 1980s and began painting landscapes en plein air. He opened a gallery in Santa Barbara in 1989. In the same year Waterhouse's twenty year old son from his first marriage died. In the process of healing, Waterhouse found himself spending more time out of the studio painting plein-air landscapes....

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