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Douglas Owen Portway: Douglas Owen Portway (1922-1993) was a South African born painter, draughtsman, designer and printmaker, well known for both his figurative and abstract work. He was born in Johannesburg, where he studied art but was not satisfied with the instruction and after teaching art and exhibiting his own work he left South Africa permanently in 1959. After a period of travelling in Europe he settled in St Ives, Cornwall in 1967 and moved to Clifton in Bristol in the early 1980s. He also spent time working at Razac d'Eymet in the Dordogne. Portway's work was exhibited internationally, and in the UK he had solo shows with Drian Gallery in London and with the Marjorie Parr and Gilbert-Parr Galleries. He is represented in many public collections, including the Tate Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum.