Douglas Hutton Contemporary Irish Landscape Artist

 

Born in Fife, Scotland in 1950, I began painting at an early age, encouraged by my parents and 

"Blue Sky Donegal" 10 by 8 inches Oil

teachers ...I especially liked drawing wildlife and the world around me, real and imaginary. I attended Edinburgh Art College from1972 to 1976 where I was introduced  to the work of the Scottish Colourists as well as American Abstract Expressionism and I became fascinated by the idea of colour as emotion. I was fortunate to experience the benefits of Sir Robin Philipson’s tuition and marvelled at his impasto studies of Altarpieces, Nudes and Still Lifes. From 1976 to 1981, I worked in a range of jobs including Accountancy, Community Artist, labourer, Salmon Fisher and Squash Coach but more importantly  I took time to walk extensively in the  remoter areas of the Scottish Highlands attracted by its vast landscape, amazing skies and changing colours. Moving to Ireland in 1982 to teach Art, I was able to enjoy similar rugged, landscape especially in Donegal  Connemmara and Achill Island and its interpretation in the work of Paul Henry,  Jack Butler Yeats and Maurice Wilks.  In 2007 I left teaching to paint fulltime. I work from a studio at home in Fermanagh to commissions for Portraits, Landscapes and Equestrian studies

“Red Sky Donegal”

Solo Exhibitions…

Loomshop Gallery, Lower largo, Fife, 1978
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 1979
Lochgelly Arts Centre, Fife, 1981
Enniskillen Visitors Centre,  Fermanagh 1984
Higher Bridges Gallery, Clinton Centre, Enniskillen, Feb. 2009

Group Exhibitions…

Saltire Society “Group of Six” 1976
Pilochry Festival Theatre, Perthshire, 1988

WELB Cluster Group, Enniskillen 1994
Basement Gallery, Enniskillen, 2007
Setanta Gallery, Irvinestown, 2008 

Basement Gallery/Castlecoole, Enniskillen November 2008 

various VAFgroup shows

Residencies... Tyrone Guthrie Centre, two weeks 2008 supported by F.D.C. revisited for 1 week February 2009