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Emerging artist Sam Houston only graduated in 2013. He is already being tipped as a rising star and is actively sought after by galleries throughout the UK. He has exhibited with galleries in London, Cornwall and Edinburgh and was shortlisted for both the Royal West of England Academy annual exhibition and the Premio Combat Art Prize in Italy. In February 2014 he was selected to exhibit with Federation of British Artists 'Futures Exhibition' at the Mall Galleries in London and his work has been exhibited at several prestigious art fairs.

On seeing Sam's work at his university graduate show on tour in London, Sophie Hill, Special Projects Manager at the Mall Galleries said: "Painting was stolen by Sam Houston, also a print-maker, whose canvases are built up through a layering of images, paint and print. Taking crumbling old buildings as a starting point, Houston explores the fragility of our surroundings; places that were once home and safe decaying into an uncertain shadow of what they once were. His layering technique builds up these feelings, as distant architectural outlines are cloaked in an eerie smoke of drained colour, the shadows of lost figures imprinted on their souls. Houston’s work conveys that strange and internal sense of evaluation upon seeing a derelict building – when one thinks of what the stones once were, before being left to disrepair." We say - watch this space and buy now.

Saffron Gallery, Battle, East Sussex.