GRAHAM HOUGH

Graham trained in Fine Art at the Harris Art School, Preston and qualified as an Art Teacher in Liverpool Teacher Training College. (NDD, ATD)

He had two careers, Part-time Lecturer in Fine Art at Wigan Mining & Technical College and, later, Principal Landscape Architect for the City of Salford.  (ALI)

 

Currently Graham is a member of the University of Central Lancashire's 'Art Lab'.

 

Graham regularly exhibits at the 'Potfest in the Pens', and The Platform Gallery, Clitheroe as well as other venues.

 

Graham is a member of the Northern Potters Association.



All the 'Character Heads' come from inside Graham's head.    Influences are numerous.  Some that can be named are Arthur Rackham, horror comics, Daumier, early Northern European painters, George Grosz, Otto Dix, nightmares, Dickens, Hogarth, Gilray, Rushton, gargoyles and people watching.

 

​Currently Graham uses porcelain body paperclay to create his 'Heads'.  Where as Graham used terracotta for his early period 'Heads' he now finds porcelain paperclay a much more amenable material to create the monsters lurking in his head.   Graham has made 'Heads' with a torso and is now working on a news series of 'Heads' with a complete body. The latest series includes 'Characters' and 'Bishops'.  Currently I am making 'Angels'.

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My latest work shows a series of five Roman Catholic Madonnas who identify some of the appalling abuses of the Catholic Church towards unmarried pregnant girls and their babies, paedophiliac priests, gross avarice and the exploitation of vulnerable congregations. 

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As well as a passion for building and riding old motorbikes, Graham was a regular visitor to the Somme Battlefields of Northern France.  The 'Great War Characters' are in tribute to the men and women ,of all nations, killed or maimed, physically and mentally, serving abroad and at home in the 'War to End All Wars'.  

                                                         

                                                          ~  Lest We Forget  ~

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