London Art Fair 2020 | STAND 44, Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, London, N1 0QH

The Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of work by Pat Douthwaite (1934-2002) one of the most talented, difficult and enigmatic painters of the second half of the 20th Century. The work on offer covers all periods of her extraordinary life, from the swinging sixties of London and Cambridge to Mallorca and Edinburgh and the final peripatetic years when she found new subjects and media. Her work can be seen as a powerful crie-de-coeur, as insistent as Bacon or Freud and her career, which might have invited the success and international recognition enjoyed by her contemporary Paula Rego, was instead blighted by illness and bad luck. This exhibition will present major works, some for the first time, and a group of previously unseen drawings which should generate considerable interest in this unique artist.

VALUATION DAYS AT THE FAIR:
Wednesday 22 January • 2 – 4pm • Guy Peploe & Tommy Zyw
Saturday 25 January • 11am – 1pm • Tommy Zyw
Book your place: mail@scottish-gallery.co.uk

GUY PEPLOE LECTURE: Thursday 23 January • 1.30 – 2.15pm • RSVP essential: londonartfair.co.uk/talks

Pat Douthwaite

Born: 1934

Place of Birth: Glasgow

Died: 2002

Pat Douthwaite was born in Glasgow in 1934. She studied mime and modern dance with Margaret Morris, whose husband, J. D. Fergusson, encouraged her to paint. This important influence apart, she was self-taught. In 1958 Pat lived in Suffolk with a group of painters, including the Scots Colquhoun and MacBryde, and William Crozier. From 1959-1988 she travelled widely, to N. Africa, India, Peru, Venezuela, Europe, U.S.A., Kashmir, Nepal, Pakistan, Ecuador and from 1969 lived part of the time in Majorca, and more recently in various properties across the Scottish Borders. She died in July 2002 in Broughty Ferry.

Douthwaite seems to find it necessary, like a method actress, to inhabit the idea, to get inside the skin of the role, as it were. Her paintings, often grotesque for all their elegance, can range in mood from tragicomic frenzy to angst-ridden melancholy, but they usually have a certain exciting theatricality in common. Cordelia Oliver, 1981

Gallery Director Guy Peploe knew the artist well and is the recognised expert on her work. He published a monograph on the artist in 2016.

The Scottish Gallery exhibitions: 1977, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2000 (Retrospective), 2005 (Memorial), 2011 (Retrospective – Paintings & Works on Paper), 2014, 2016, 2020 (London), 2021

London Art Fair

Pat Douthwaite

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