"Houghton’s fascination with the ironic play between the real and its representation, including the way it shapes our different versions of the real, is a fundamental trope in many of his commissioned watercolours. Richter’s explanation of this relationship might be applied to many of these works: ‘the photograph is not an aid to painting, rather painting is an aid to creating a photograph using the methods of painting.’ Houghton makes a painted image of a photograph as a further translation of reality: a medial shift in which one form of representation replaces another; the reproducible is re-envisaged as a unique object. While this is true, the final image carries with it an underlying sense of other modes of representation to which it refers".
Dr. Jim Brook - Ashmolean Museum
Houghton Retrospective at the Ashmolean - 2014
JEREMY HOUGHTON British, b. 1974
Jeremy Houghton is a British painter based in Gloucestershire.