Happy Birthday, Ralph!

Iconic artist and art gallery owner Ralph Waterhouse celebrated his 80th birthday in style with a party for 90 guests at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History with his bubbly wife, Diane.

The dynamic duo have owned an eponymous gallery in La Arcada for 39 years and last April opened a new outlet on Coast Village Road, a tiara’s toss from Ca’Dario.

Ralph, who hails from the north of England, started life as a graphic artist before morphing into a wildlife painter.

In the late ‘80s he turned to landscape paintings utilizing his love of the Californian scenery.

Among friends and family attending were Ralph’s sister, Lesley, from Harrogate in Yorkshire, Mark Whitehurst and Kerry Methner, Luke Swetland, Stephen and Karen Clark, Gary Simpson and Jill Nida, and Bob and Caroline Williams.