Gordon House - Geometrically abstract.

Gordon House was born on 22 June 1932 in Pontardawe, South Wales. An early introduction to art during trips to the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery as a young boy inspired House to pursue his creative endeavours and at the age of fourteen he was offered a scholarship to art school, which he readily accepted. From 1947 to 1950 he studied at Luton School of Art, Bedfordshire, and St Albans School of Art, Hertfordshire. House's contemporaries included Richard Smith and John Plumb, with whom he remained close. In the early 1950s, after finishing art school, House began work as an assistant to the ecclesiastical sculptor Theodore Kern. He also spent time in an advertising studio, where he honed his emerging skills in typography and graphic design. In 1952 House was offered a position as a designer for the Imperial Chemical Industries Plastics Division, where he remained until 1959. This was followed by two years as a graphic designer for the Kynoch Press in London. In 1961 House set out on his own as a freelance designer and typographer. Initially this was supplemented by part-time teaching at art schools in and around London, but by 1964 House was able to devote himself entirely to his design work, freeing up valuable time to concentrate on his own artistic output in the studio.







































New vision
In the late 1950s, inspired by the new art emerging in America and England, House began to create large-scale abstract works. In 1959 he was invited to exhibit these at Dennis Bowen's legendary New Vision Centre in Marble Arch.