Doris Hatt 1890-1969

Doris Hatt was born in Bath in 1890 and studied Art locally before progressing to the Royal College and the Vienna Conservatoire of Art.

During the mid 1920s she worked in Paris where she befriended many artists of the day, including Picasso, Braque, Gris and others, this having a profound effect on the direction of her art, moving her away from her more naturalistic post-impressionistic work to a more radical modernism and an investigation of cubism among other styles. Although she undertook a return to a more personalised naturalism in later life, the works of her late period still possess a strong modernist sense of colour and boldness of composition.

Exhibitions included Royal Academy, Leicester and Redfern Galleries, Jack Bilbo's Modern Art Gallery, and Foyles Gallery. In the 1950s and 1960s she had a series of one-man shows, including Minerva Gallery, Bath, and Osiris Gallery, Oxford; with a retrospective at RWA, Bristol, 1960. Michael Wright Fine Art, Bristol held a retrospective in 1998.

Her work is represented in several major public collections. She not only painted but was also a wood carver.