Wilfred James Haughton (1921-1999) View Of Saint Ives Cornwall England 1958

Boats at low tide in Saint Ives, Cornwall, England, oil on canvas by Wilfred James Haughton, painter born in 1921 in Hillmount, Northern Ireland and died in 1999.
Signed and dated 1958 lower left, located on the back of the stretcher.
Good condition, slight traces of the stretcher visible.
Dimensions without frame : 76 X 61 cm.
Dimensions with frame : 88 x 73 cm.
Artist in watercolour, oil and pastel painter, and writer, Wilfred James Haughton was the founding president of the Ulster Watercolor Society in 1977 and a member of the Watercolor Society of Ireland.
He has exhibited at the RHA, the RI, and participated in a series of solo exhibitions in London, Belfast, Dublin, and Limerick.
After a commercial career, he became a full-time artist in 1968.
Haughton was virtually self-taught, although he took classes from Jack Merriott and Edward Wesson. His goal was "to preserve the pure technique of watercolor in the face of the many additives that impair the clarity and vibrancy of the medium." He wrote the books Brush Aside and Purely Watercolor.