Artist statement
Concepts
Over the past year or so, my work has shifted its emphasis, from reflections on landscape, to wider concerns regarding a sense of time and place. I am fascinated by ways in which the transitory nature of our existence is demonstrated: by traces of former human activity and the action of natural forces on the physical world.
Works evolve through the process of making, of constructing and assembling, drawing, painting, on canvas, board or paper. I search for a visual language, which will communicate my perceptions of place and time, sometimes incorporating fragments of found objects and documents, which bring elements of reality into the work.
Influences
Influences on my painting are many. Visual artists such as Picasso, Braque and Nicholson, Brancusi and Hepworth, are clearly important to me; but the music played in the studio - anything from the baroque to the 20th century composers, including early jazz and experimental fusion - has it’s own effect on the structure and content of work. In the final analysis I would hope that the work is an honest reflection of life as lived.
Career path
Patrick Haughton was born in Devonport in 1942. He grew up and was educated in Barnstaple in North Devon, moving to Exeter to study architecture in 1960.
He was encouraged to start painting by the artist Nicholas Eastwood, and in 1962 abandoned architecture to enrol at Exeter College of Art. He subsequently transferred to the West of England College of Art in Bristol where he studied painting and sculpture. Paul Feiler was head of painting at that time, visiting tutors included William Scott & Karl Weschke.
On leaving Art College he qualified as a teacher and moved to the small town of Lydd on Romney Marsh in Kent. In 1975 he returned to the South West, becoming headteacher of a small rural school in Cornwall in 1982.
Since retiring from teaching in 1995 he has worked full time as a painter. He was elected as a full member of Newlyn Society of Artists in 1996. He lives and works in Penryn, overlooking the estuary of the River Fal in Cornwall.
He now exhibits widely across the UK.
Collections
Les Amis de la Grande Vigne, Dinan, France
St. George’s Hospital, London
Private collections in France, Monaco, USA, South Africa, Hong Kong & Singapore
Artist in Residence
2004 Association des Amis de La Grande Vigne: Atelier d’Artiste, Ville de Dinan, Brittany, France
Solo exhibitions
- 2012 Patrick Haughton, Recent Work, Truro Arts, Truro, Cornwall
- 2004 Inside Outside 3, Minster Fine Art, York
- 2001 Michael Wright Fine Art, Clifton, Bristol
- 1999 Michael Wright Fine Art, Clifton, Bristol
- 1998 Michael Wright Fine Art, Clifton, Bristol
- 1998 The Atelier Gallery, University of Exeter, Devon
- 1997 Voyages, Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall
- 1996 Contemporary Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
- 1995 Plumbline Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
- 1995 Bakehouse Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
Group exhibitions
- 2012 April Mix, Open Space Gallery, Falmouth
- 2011 Winter Show, Open Space Gallery, Falmouth
- 2011 Fishwick and Friends, Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall
- 2011 Abstract 6 +, Yew Tree Gallery, Morvah, Cornwall
- 2010 "The Edge", Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall
- 2010 Patrick Haughton, Barbara Karn, Melanie Guy, Open Space Gallery, Penryn Cornwall
- 2010 Summer Show, Trelissick Gallery, Cornwall
- 2010 Affordable Art Fair, Open Space Gallery, Battersea, London
- 2009 "NSA Three Galleries", Westcott's Gallery, St. Ives Cornwall
- 2009 "Tiger Attack", Edgar Modern Contemporary Fine art, Bath
- 2009 "A Cornish Perspective", Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
- 2009 Juxtapositions - Patrick Haughton & Volker Stox, Open Space Galleries, Penryn, Cornwall
- 2008 Cabinet Paintings, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall
- 2008 156th Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
- 2008 LSG Summer Show, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall
- 2008 Peninsula, Edgar Modern Fine Art, Bath
- 2007 Cabinet Painting, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall
- 2007 Winter Wonderland, Hilton Young Gallery, Penzance
- 2007 NSA Unquiet Earth, St. Ives Society of Artists, St Ives Cornwall
- 2006 Cabinet Paintings, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall
- 2006 Autumn Exhibition, Thompsons Gallery, London
- 2006 Summer Exhibition, Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden
- 2005 Winter Exhibition, Thompsons Gallery, London
- 2005 Christmas Exhibition, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall
- 2005 Christmas Show, edgarmodern contemporary fine art, Bath
- 2005 NSA Critic's Choice; Norbert Lynton, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall
- 2005 Newlyn Society of Artists, Thompsons City Gallery, London
- 2004 One, Edgarmodern Contemporary Fine Art, Bath
- 2004 In The Air & Fragments from Life, Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
- 2004 The Cornish Exhibition, Edgarmodern Contemporary Fine Art, Bath
- 2004 Critic’s Choice - John Russell Taylor, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
- 2003 Constructed, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall
- 2003 ID [identity], Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
- 2003 Inside Outside, Adze Contemporary Gallery, York
- 2003 The Contemporary Landscape, Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
- 2003 Twentieth Century and Contemporary British Art, Market House Gallery, Marazion, Cornwall
- 2003 Discovering Cornish Talent, Hicks Gallery, Wimbledon, London
- 2002 Summer Show: Haughton, Browning, Lindsay, Williams, Bishop Philpotts Gallery, Truro, Cornwall
- 2002 Chiaroscuro, Vallico in Arte, Lucca, Italy
- 2002 A View of St. Ives 3, The Belgrave Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall
- 2001 A View of St. Ives, The Belgrave Gallery, St. Ives
- 2001 New Traditions: 4 Abstract Artists, Perimeter Gallery, Penzance
- 2000 20 Years of Contemporary Art, Falmouth Art Gallery
- 2000 Critics Choice, curated Charlotte Mullins, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn
- 1999 East-West, Forefront Gallery, Ipswich, Suffolk
- 1999 Cornish Art in the Nineties, Beatrice Royal Contemporary Gallery, Eastleigh, Hampshire
- 1998 Newlyn Society of Artists, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
- 1998 Critics Choice, Curated Theo Waddington, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn
- 1996 Another View, New Millenium Gallery, St Ives
- 1996 Coastlines, Handel House Gallery, Devizes
- 1991 Artists from the Salthouse, The Black Swan Guild, Frome
Projects
- 2007 Set Design "Prince of The Burning Sun", Cornish Theatre Collective, Minack Theatre, Cornwall
- 2007 The Alchemist, Cornish Theatre Collective, National Touring shows 2001 / 2007
- 2006 Grand Theatre of Action "Nelson", Cornish Theatre Collective / National Maritime Museum Cornwall, Trelissick, Cornwall
- 2002 Acadians, Cornish Theatre Collective / Penryn Community Theatre, Dehwelans Festival, Falmouth
Publications
- 2007 St. Ives 1975 - 2005 Art Colony in Transition - Peter Davies
- 2002 ARTNSA, Newlyn Society of Artists
- 2000 20 Years of Contemporary Art, Falmouth Art Gallery
- 1998 Catching The Drift, Venue Magazine, Suzanne Bisset
- 1996 Drawing to The End of The Century, Newlyn Society of Artists
- 1996 Another View : Art in St. Ives, Marion Whybrow
