DOUTHWAITE, Patricia

1934 - 2002

Patricia Douthwaite was born at Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland on 28 July 1934, daughter of Thomas Leslie Douthwaite and his wife Winifred Rachael née [?], and although she was born in 1934, she claimed throughout her life to have been born in 1939. She spent her early life in Paisley being educated at Paisley Grammar School, but she travelled widely, living in various places including York, Edinburgh, Dumfriesshire, and Berwick-upon-Tweed. In 1947, Douthwaite took up expressive dance and ballet classes, when she took up dance instruction from Margaret Morris (1891-1980) and only making the decision to be a painter later in her life, without any formal art education but was instructed by John Duncan Fergusson (1874-1966) who was Margaret Morris's partner. Her work was notably compared to Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) and Chaim Soutine (1893-1943), the peintres maudits of early twentieth-century Paris and her work is featured in several different museums and, although she exhibited regularly, her highly individual style was often considered outside the confines of mainstream art and, together with her nomadic existence and troubled personal life resulted in her never achieving public success. Patricia left Scotland in 1958 and associated herself with a wide artistic crowd which included Robert MacBryde (1913-1966), Robert Colquhoun (1914-1962), and with William Crozier (1930-2011), whom she had met in Glasgow. Moving into Crozier's house in Suffolk, Crozier introduced her to the distinguished artist and illustrator (Arthur) Paul Hogarth (4 October 1917–27 December 2001), who after the birth of their son Toby in 1960, as Patricia Hogarth she married Hogarth in 1963 but they later separated. During 1959-1988 she travelled widely, to North Africa, India, Peru, Venezuela, Europe, U.S.A., Kashmir, Nepal, Pakistan, Ecuador and from 1969 lived part of the time in Majorca. Patricia Hogarth died at Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Scotland on 26 July 2002.

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