Palestinian Stone
Thrower |
A Good Deal Done |
Angels Die Where
Fools Fear Not to Kill |
Celine Listening |
Pat |
Mood of Henrietta
Levine |
From his earliest years
in South Africa where he was born in 1938, Doug has been
fascinated by the inner workings of the mind and how it affects
how we look. Reading people and interpreting their moods and
feelings into paintings is central to his work. When he started
painting in his late teens in oils, Doug thought it was possible
to express everything in abstract terms and tried to prove that in
his paintings. Inexorably however, he was driven to more
figurative work but he rebelled against pure realism and
eventually came up against a brick wall and stopped painting.
Many years later having
worked successfully in the textile industry in the U.K., designing
and developing furnishing fabrics, the urge to paint returned. His
work, now in acrylics mainly on reinforced hardboard took a new
direction, focusing on very colourful but realistic portraits or
impressions of people and events. Progressively his work has
become tighter, more precise and as in the case of the
socio-political works very powerful.
Having people as his
subjects, interpreting them in abstract through to super realism,
his work is extremely varied - as varied as a baby is to an
octogenarian but always drawing on people and their virtues or
follies.
Having eschewed a formal
education in painting, he has developed an unusual format whereby
he incorporates his frames into his paintings and usually paints
all of the visible surfaces. He is now experimenting with 3d
painting creations on a theme of who am I, what am I and how do I
relate to the space around me?
For the past 3 years Doug
has had a web site at http://freespace.virgin.net/douglas.art
where he exhibits all of his recent paintings. Please have a look.
He is also represented on 11 juried cyber galleries and 12 web
sites in Europe and North America.
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