Pat Douthwaite

Pat Douthwaite (28 July 1934 – 26 July 2002) was a Scottish artist. She has been notably compared to Amedeo Modigliani and Chaïm Soutine, the peintres maudits of early twentieth-century Paris.

Life Douthwaite was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to mother Winifred Rachael, and father Thomas Leslie Douthwaite. She spent her early life in Paisley. She travelled widely, living in various places across the world until her death in Dundee, in 2002. Although she was born in 1934, she claimed throughout her life to have been born in 1939. Her work is featured in several different museums. She was married to Paul Hogarth between 1963-1970, and they had one son together. Fergusson was a landscape artist and taught Douthwaite how to appreciate the light interacting with a landscape. She continued to dance and was a part of Morris's Celtic Ballet in 1954 at Jacob's Pillow Theatre in Massachusetts U.S.A. She left Scotland in 1958, and associated herself with a wide artistic crowd which included Robert MacBryde, Robert Colquhoun, Peter Cook, Roger Law, and William Crozier, the latter of whom she had met in Glasgow. She moved into Crozier's house in Essex in 1958, however the extent of her relationship with many other of these artists is not clear.

In December 1963 Douthwaite exhibited alongside the artists Philip Jones and Bill Featherstone at the Grabowski Gallery in London.

Douthwaite exhibited with the Women's International Art Club in London between 1960 and 1966.

Although much of her work explores issues surrounding femininity and womanhood, Douthwaite did not self identify as a feminist. The Scottish Gallery held a memorial show in 2005 with an extensive catalogue. University of St Andrews Lillie Art Gallery Ferens Art Gallery City Art Centre Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Paisley Museum and Art Galleries The Fleming Collection The Hepworth, Wakefield University of Stirling The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum

Personal reputation Douthwaite had a reputation as a "compelling" painter, but also as difficult, and insecure.