Haughton /Crozier Remembered
Promises of David Haughton original works for the planned DAVID HAUGHTON exhibition at Penlee House Gallery & Museum, (from 14 January to 18 March 2017) are gradually filling a substantial file at Penlee House in Penzance. The interest in, and the enthusiasm for this planned exhibition is most welcome, and gratefully received by myself, curator Katie Herbert, and director Louise Connell.
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| David Haughton (C) the Estate of William Crozier |
Along with paintings, drawings and etchings, documentation is beginning to come to light which includes these most interesting photographs from the period in the Sixties (1965-68) when David was teaching at the Central School of Art alongside his good friend and fellow painter William Crozier.
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| David Haughton (C) the Estate of William Crozier |
William Crozier was part of the artistic and literary world of 1950s Soho, and like David, a friend of 'the Roberts', Colquhoun and MacBryde.
Wikipedia records;.
"Based in London throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Crozier exhibited his works in London, Glasgow, Dublin and all over Europe. As many artists of the 1960s did, Crozier combined painting with teaching, first at Bath Academy of Art, (with Howard Hodgkin, Gillian Ayres and Terry Frost), then at the Central School of Art and Design (with William Turnbull and Cecil Collins), at the Studio School in New York and finally at Winchester School of Art where he led a strong centre for painting based on the European tradition. From the 1980s, Crozier's painting blossomed with a new freedom and confidence, the result of his giving up teaching and the stimulus provided by his studios in West Cork in Ireland, and in Hampshire in England. His abstract landscapes and still life painting used sumptuous colour to convey an emotional intensity. To the end of his life, he was endlessly concerned with the challenge of creating a new language in figurative painting."
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| William Crozier (5 May 1930 – 12 July 2011) |
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| David Haughton (C) the Estate of William Crozier |
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