15 Facts About Pat Douthwaite

Pat Douthwaite has been notably compared to Amedeo Modigliani and Chaim Soutine, the peintres maudits of early twentieth-century Paris.

Pat Douthwaite travelled widely, living in various places across the world until her death in Dundee, in 2002.

In 1947, Pat Douthwaite took up expressive dance and ballet classes, only making the decision to be a painter later in her life, and without any formal art education.

Pat Douthwaite took up dance classes in 1947, which were taught by Margaret Morris.

Pat Douthwaite continued to dance and was a part of Morris's Celtic Ballet in 1954 at Jacob's Pillow Theatre in Massachusetts USA.

Pat Douthwaite had her first solo show at 57 Gallery in Edinburgh in 1958.

Pat Douthwaite 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.

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

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

Pat Douthwaite was the recipient of various awards from the Scottish Arts Council.

Pat Douthwaite's work pursued a variety of themes including the Manson Trial, American Women Bandits and the aviator Amy Johnson.

Pat Douthwaite had a solo exhibition in 1993 at the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh of her more recent and final works.

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

Pat Douthwaite is described by Cordelia Oliver as having felt increasingly "alienated" throughout her life, and hard to please.