Olwyn Bowey
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Portraiture, Landscapes, Flowers Art Work
| Name: |
Olwyn Bowey |
| Gender: |
Female |
| Place of Birth: |
Durham, UK |
| Nationality: |
English |
| Birth: |
1936 |
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Quick Facts
| Known For: |
Portraiture, Landscapes, Flowers |
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| Method: |
Oil on canvas |
| Style: |
Impressionism |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Painting
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Biography
The portraitist Olwyn Bowey has painted the dramatist Harold Pinter, the writer Lady Antonia Fraser, and the politician and journalist Woodrow Wyatt Her pencil Portrait of a Woman of 1970 was one of the few works by women artists to be included in The Human Clay, an exhibition selected by R.B. Kitaj in 1976. The drawing was bought by the Arts Council.
Bowey trained at the West Hartlepool School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Much of her practice is landscape painting. In the catalogue foreword for her 1969 exhibition at the New Grafton Gallery, Carel Weight described Bowey as 'a direct descendant of the English nature artists ... Constable, the English watercolorists and John Nash, who concerned themselves with the intimate and rustic aspects of the country ... rather than the dramatic grandeur of the storm, or the desolate and tremendous prospects that inspired Turner or Byron.' A focus on what Bowey has termed the 'neglected' suggests a sympathy with LS. Lowry, whose portrait by her is now in the Tate Collection. And her i960 joint exhibition with Sonia Lawson at the New Grafton Gallery included paintings such as Railway footpath and Footbridge, Stockton.
Bowey has been a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy since the early 1960s, becoming an Associate in 1968, and exhibiting alongside Gillian Ayres, Sandra Blow, Jean Cooke, Francis Bacon and Peter Lanyon (among other artists) at the Academy's 1977 exhibition British Painting 52-77. |
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