Born in 1974 In London, Jeremy Houghton is an internationally recognized British artist in residence who paints primarily with oils and watercolours.

After graduating with a degree in law, Houghton went on to study at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Universite de Provence, before becoming head of art at the International School of Cape Town, where he taught for five years.

In Houghton's paintings, the image substantiates the ebb and flow of the artist's processes; a transformation which he utilizes to reflect upon his observations and experiences of daily life and human activity. The different contexts of work, sport and war foreground his perception of the specific human gestures and actions which disclose them. If the disappearance of the moment is common to all these theatres of life, so is the idea of completion, not only of an event, but of every action towards its end. Similarly, Houghton's paintings describe images of closure, but this fixed moment is also traceable to the motion of the hand and brush, and the formulations of paint and surface that individuate them.

The artist lives and works in Cotswold, United Kingdom.