David A. Haughton

David A. Haughton was born in Philadelphia in 1956 and moved to Canada in 1991. A self-taught artist, Haughton has been exhibiting his work for fifty years. For 30+ years, he supplemented his art income as a Pediatric Emergency doctor. As was his plan all along, he is now a full-time painter.

Two Havens will be his twenty-fourth solo exhibition in Vancouver. He has also shown in Zurich, Athens, Boston, New York City, Los Angeles and Seattle and his work hangs in over 400 private and corporate collections worldwide.

A man with gray hair and a mustache, wearing a blue short-sleeve shirt, leaning on a black sandwich board outside a building with a brick wall. The board displays a landscape painting of mountains and a lake. In the background, there are frames on the wall inside the building and a glass window with white text about Mount Baker.

Artist statement

Landscape painting of trees overlooking a lake with mountains in the distance, under a cloudy sky, with a bench in the foreground.

Each winter storm season my wife Lyne and I journey to MacKenzie Beach. Each summer dawn finds us walking the length of Rebecca Spit. In each haven, I found an iconic feature that inspires. On MacKenzie Beach lie two small tidal islands with trees twisted and bent by onshore winds. On Rebecca Spit, blue-black silhouettes of old growth Douglas fir are backlit by pre-dawn light.

A colorful landscape painting of mountains, water, and sky at sunset, with tree logs in the foreground.

Windy Midday II

First Rays VI

Oil painting of a landscape featuring two large trees in the foreground next to a body of water, with mountains in the background during sunset or sunrise.

First Light Dawn VIII