Sara Baume & Mollie Douthit

Olivia Ovenden, The Observer, July 11, 2026

Friendship through the looking glasS

The writer Sara Baume first encountered the artist Mollie Douthit in a shed in rural West Cork in October 2021. At a pop-up exhibition in a friend’s outhouse, Baume was drawn to a painting by Douthit featuring a pair of single beds with a telescope set up on a tripod on the floor...