A Meeting of Minds - Louis Maqhubela and Douglas Portway

26 Douglas Portway  Untitled  oil on canvas  122 by 122 cm private collection Douglas Portway  Efflorescence  oil on canvas  127 by 127 cm private collection ‘I want my paintings to have a light of their own, they must glow from inside … they should become objects into which one could float, as in water, so that one’s mind is hung, so to speak, suspended, and the emanation of the painting, the mood of the painting would penetrate into people’s consciousness.’ The artist, quoted in Hodin, J.P. Douglas Portway: A Painter’s Life . Philadelphia: The Art Alliance Press, 1981, p. 17.