There is a confidence about Mollie Douthit’s practice, which is slow and considered, writes Margarita Cappock
The American painter Mollie Douthit describes her oeuvre as ‘simply the file cabinet of my mind being slowly pulled out and exposed through the medium of paint’. Based in a remote cabin near Ballydehob in West Cork, Douthit is preoccupied with the domestic, quotidian and personal. Her preference is to work on a small scale. The resultant paintings resonate with emotion and evoke both her current lived existence and memories of past locations or events.
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