Douglas Portway

Exhibited

South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Is There Still Life, 2007.

Notes

"Portway's early paintings, strongly informed by the work of the American Abstract Expressionist painters, have a diaphanous, transparent quality populated by ambiguous half-forms often realized in a frenetic, scratchy line. Untitled I exemplifies his later style, where tentative, diffuse forms cohere into a still-life arrangement embedded in a world of distilled light and tranquil order that reflects his interest in the Buddhist ideal of balance and harmony between all things."¹

^1. Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Works From A Private Collection of Contemporary South African Art on Permanent Loan to The Chancellor Oppenheimer Library, University of Cape Town, Cape Town: University of Cape Town, unpaginated.

Literature

Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Michael Stevenson (ed) (2001) Works From A Private Collection of Contemporary South African Art on Permanent Loan to The Chancellor Oppenheimer Library, University of Cape Town, Cape Town: University of Cape Town, illustrated in black and white, unpaginated, cat. no. 35.

Provenance

Property of a Gentleman.