Grace Houghton

She Came Through Water. Engraved steel. 100x50cm. 📷 @lucasmarcusschilder It’s been a crazy few months sharing all my new pieces with the world. After an insanely beautiful evening sharing my work with some big cuties at Dusk Markt my body finally said please slow down and rest! So now after a few weeks of recovering and trying to slow down I’m able to reflect on what a beautiful period it has been. Very thankful to everyone who have supported me so far and am so excited for the commissions I have coming up for some very cute people! Big thank you to my dear friend Lucas for taking this (and some more to come) beautiful shots of my work. Looking forward to getting back behind the dremel and seeing what comes next xxx

Join us on our exhibition opening on April 10 from 19.00–23.00 for an evening of art, drinks, and good vibes. @sash.abg @g.ho @yooitsjoe_ @_virginiagianni_ are showing rigorous human @goodnewsisalliwant will be playing see you all there🫐

Photos from a weeks ago when dear friend @lucasmarcusschilder visited my home and took some photos of pieces from the “Becoming Gentle” series. Thank you for your sensitivity and helping capture a record of these pieces that have not only been part of the transformation of my practice but also my self. Big love.

Thanks everyone who came by Friday! Was amazing to share the space with the beautiful works of @sash.abh @_virginiagianni_ @yooitsjoe_ and ofc @filth.amsterdam for hosting 💧 My ‘Rising earth triptych’ will be only display for a a few weeks, so if you couldn’t make it on the opening night you can go visit Filth for a closer look 💓

Cutting the Clouds 50cn x 80cm x 3mm [SOLD] Stratus: a widely extended, continuous sheet, reaching from below upwards Poet, painter, scientist and all human kind alike have felt the keen delight of following cloud transitions in the sky. All (wo)men in all lands, are nephelolators or cloud admirers, - for the cloudscape give all the most varied landscape can offer. A generous sky knows no difference between the sons of earth, and spreads everywhere scenes of wondrous grace & colour. Even the most commonplace cloud formation - fog- which on earth is often aggravating and trying to health and temper, becomes beautiful as soon as it leaves the earth. the stratus - or “raised fog” less than one thousand meters high. And here it may be noticed, that in summer, the earth pushes her cloud mantle away from her, and draws it closer to her in winter leaving a pensive coating, vague, mutable, and transient in autumn and winter months. Of the Stratus This cloud modification has a mean degree of density. It is the lowest of CLouds since its inferior surface commonly rests on the earth or water. Contrary to cumulus, which may be considered as belonging to the day, this is properly the cloud of the night; the time of its first appearance being about sunset. It comprehends all those creeping Mists which in calm evenings ascend in sppreading sheets (like an inundation -from the bottom of valleys, and the surface of lakes and rivers, and other pieces of water to cover the surrounding country.

Little studio spring clean this week finding old sketches and trials and samples and ideas that maybe might come to life after some time dormant and dusty out of sight. A new tool arrives today and I’m dreaming of raised textures, adding and joining and growing upwards an outwards the marks on these metal surfaces. Found some old notes from researching diaries of scientists interacting with volcanos and here is a nice excerpt for the third day of April. “I was surrounded with sulphurous vapour, more especially when the wind (which was continually shifting) was blowing towards me)such was the density of the vapour on one occasion, indeed, that my two guides bundled into my tent, to the great danger of my bath and chemicals. I send you the three negatives I was enabled to take, and would have gladly sent you duplicates ; but after about a couple of hours’ work my bath got covered with a black pellicle which adhered to the collodion, causing the plates to stain all over, so that I was obliged to give up. “The Taal Volcano in the Philippine Islands.” Illustrated London News, 4 Feb. 1860, p. 109. The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003

Been pitter pattering around the city getting some pieces framed up prim and proper and packed up nice and neat and tight. Enjoying the early spring light that has started hitting in justthe right shade of soft clean glow through the window at my studio bin a few weeks it will creep back again in the afternoons as well. I’ve been experimenting with zinc. Much softer and lighter. I’m about to put in an order for some new sheets and thinking about shapes and perforations and connections. I als burnt through the third in 1,5 hr of my most used tool. And my new one came with a new attachment that removes the kickback and lets me play with some finer, more detailed and controlled engraving. Not sure im interested in full figurative works but it is nice carving out soft petals in the spring air. Let me know if you want to see more details of any pf these. I’m happy with how the newly found control is allowing for more precision in the view from different angles. Warm Sunday and gentlest week ahead xxx

finishing touches final polishes and signing of a few works that will be available to see Saturday irl at the @high_radiance equinox market @coachhousecollective61 at Kerstraat 61 I tried to do one of these videos of the process a bit but realise it’s not a super elegant process to get to the soft and shiny surfaces. For me it’s always about the process not matter how physically draining and intensive and toxic etc but maybe it’s better for everyone else it’s about the shimmer and shine. But anyway enjoy the little window in…. I’ll be showing some new works and a REALLY BIG ONE I’m excited to debut, as well as some works I’ve done on zinc plate instead of my normal stainless steel. Much softer to work with a nd a brighter reaction to the light. Plus wayyy lighter so easier for me to move and manage and create with. Think I’ll try more like this. Come and hang out Saturday - I’m there all day 10-19. Also sweet friend @aishgd @othermud will be debuting irl her out of this world dreamy muddy creations. Goodnight!

I was in Australia for 6 weeks and have not posted anything since. Looking back on photos of beautiful Scribbly barks and perched water lakes and grey ghost gums and sweet family and wonderful friends I got to wile away a good few weeks with today with a friend made me both warm with love and warm with an ache of moments fading away. What an overwhelmingly beautiful place I come from!! A truly magical place with a wildness and beauty, that when given a moment for admiration brings upon me clarity and a rush of calmness. This piece is for my mum and dad, 11kg of steel that crossed over half the world to end up in its rightful place catching the afternoon rays in Brisbane. Flowers after rain. 45x100cm.

Soaked in an overcast sheen. A shiny and sweet work in progress flower detail for a current commission. …Cohesion tension theory… The cohesion-tension theory is also sometimes called the cohesion theory. It is a theory dating back to the late nineteenth century, which attempts to explain the principal forces that govern the ‘ascent of sap’ from the soil to the leaves in plants. - essentially, how does sap travel against gravity from the roots into the leave of a tree…???? At the time of writing, there has been more controversy over the cohesion theory - controversy still surrounds the theory today. Scientists believed that the loss of water in the leaves of tree’s exerts a pull on the water in the xylem ducts aof a tree nd draws more water into the leaf. But, on consideration even the best vacuum pump can pull water up to a height of only 10.4 m (34 ft) or so. This is because a column of water that high exerts a pressure of 1.03 MPa just counterbalanced by the pressure of the atmosphere. So, How can water be drawn to the top of a sequoia, the tallest is 113 m (370 ft) high?

….flowers, in the storm engraved rvs 25x50cm

Flowers, in the snow [SOLD] 20x75 Mirrored RVS