Colin Middleton

Colin Middleton
Born29 January 1910
Belfast, Ireland
Died23 December 1983
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Alma materBelfast School of Art
Known forpainting, printmaking
Stylesurrealist, expressionist
ElectedRoyal Hibernian Academy, Royal Ulster Academy of Arts

Colin Middleton MBE (29 January 1910 – 23 December 1983) was a Northern Irish landscape artist, figure painter, and surrealist. Middleton's prolific output in an eclectic variety of modernist styles is characterised by an intense inner vision, augmented by his lifelong interest in documenting the lives of ordinary people. He has been described as 'Ireland's greatest surrealist.'