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little known painters... Doris Hatt
Doris Hatt
One has to be careful what one wishes for! I have a friend who also collects obscure British painters and potters and who always enquires about my latest obsession or acquisition. I am naturally secretive about such things, so when she recently made her enquires I told her that ‘lesbian, abstract painters who worked between the wars’ was the direction I was taking. She took this without any question, encouraged coincidentally, by the fact that many of the painters and potters in my collection are single woman who lives were absorbed with making art (rather than looking after husbands). It is their art that interests me, rather than their sexuality.
One has to be careful what one wishes for! I have a friend who also collects obscure British painters and potters and who always enquires about my latest obsession or acquisition. I am naturally secretive about such things, so when she recently made her enquires I told her that ‘lesbian, abstract painters who worked between the wars’ was the direction I was taking. She took this without any question, encouraged coincidentally, by the fact that many of the painters and potters in my collection are single woman who lives were absorbed with making art (rather than looking after husbands). It is their art that interests me, rather than their sexuality.
