A retrospective exhibition of the late Douglas’s travels and life in Western Australia. Oils on canvas.

Douglas A. Wood 1930 – 2023

The late Douglas Wood was an art educator and artist. He was born in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and graduated in Fine Art from the School of Painting in the Department of Fine Art, University of Durham, UK. His first one-man exhibition of paintings and collage reliefs was in 1965 at the Westgate (Fine Art) Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne. He went on to exhibit at the Laing Art Gallery, the Royal Academy (1982), the Royal Society of British Artists (1983) and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (1983, 1984). In 1985 the Dixon Gallery in London hosted his one-man exhibition titled “The Scottish Game and Other Paintings”. During the course of his career in Art Education he was a contributor to international art education conferences and seminars in Canada and Australia, as well as publishing numerous papers dealing with the imaginative, social, economic and skill dimensions of art activities. Following retirement from the position of Head of Art at University of  Roehampton Douglas migrated to Western  Australia in 1987. His paintings have been shown in Fremantle, Perth, Albany and Katanning, as well as being awarded nine Australian Art Prizes including the City of Melville Art Prize (1989 and 1990), City of Belmont Art Prize (1989), the R and I Bank Test Match Prize (1991) and the major purchase prize in the inaugural Telecom Art Award.