Day Bowman

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Day Bowman is an abstract and figurative painter whose works are full of movement, colour and wonder.
Day Bowman experiments with charcoal, oil and pencil on canvas, playing with ink spills, ribbons of colour and explosive mark-making.
Day’s highly praised paintings are often inspired by the landscape of her childhood coastal home.

Day Bowman’s paintings recreate the coastal landscape of her childhood home; capturing the tide, the peppery grey sand and the sunlight as it beams down and laps up the sea. With a style which treads the tangential boundary between abstraction and figuration, Day creates complex and inquisitive works full of movement, colour and wonder.

Day Bowman’s Early Career and Practice

A graduate of the Chelsea School of Art, London, Day's style is characterised by chaotic mark-making, explosive colour, ribbon-like lines and ink spills. Gestural brushstrokes, wildly atmospheric palettes and curious, earthy textures abound in works such as her Rainy Day and Road Trip, multimedia blends of oil, charcoal and Conte on canvas. Some of her work harbours subtly political undertones, pertaining to a wave of environmental decay, industrial waste and intolerance.

Awards and Collections

In the past twelve months her work has gained first prize in the Anima Mundi International Painting Prize and exhibited at the Venice Biennale 2019; this was quickly followed by being awarded first prize in the Bath Arts Open 2019 and first prize for the inaugural Wales Contemporary 2019. Most recently Day was awarded the Winsor & Newton Prize 2020 by the Royal Institute for Painters in Watercolours.

Tearing up the Rule Book, a solo international exhibition at Westminster Reference Library London and Atelier Melusine France was praised by critics and bloggers at its London showing in March 2019. In 2012 she was commissioned to produce a series of giant hoardings for Weymouth Railway Station, host town to the Olympic Sailing and Paralympic Sailing events.

Day’s work is held in numerous private and public collections worldwide including Hilton Hotel Group; British Dental Association; Dorset County Hospital, St. Vincent and Grenadines Govt. Art Collection, the Priseman Seabrook Collection and the Yantai Art Museum Collection China.

Day Bowman Artworks

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    Full flood 7 by Day Bowman
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    Full flood 7 by Day Bowman

    Full flood 7

    Paintings - 26x30 cmRent for $75 /mo
    Drum 3, Water Zone Series by Day Bowman
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    Drum 3, Water Zone Series by Day Bowman

    Drum 3, Water Zone Series

    Paintings - 102x112 cm
    Drum 1, Water Zones Series by Day Bowman
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    Drum 1, Water Zones Series by Day Bowman

    Drum 1, Water Zones Series

    Paintings - 102x112 cm
    Drum 4, Water Zones Series by Day Bowman
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    Drum 4, Water Zones Series by Day Bowman

    Drum 4, Water Zones Series

    Paintings - 102x112 cm
    Plashy Place 3 by Day Bowman
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    Plashy Place 3 by Day Bowman

    Plashy Place 3

    Paintings - 140x150 cmRent for $600 /mo
    Refinery 1 by Day Bowman
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    Refinery 1 by Day Bowman

    Refinery 1

    Paintings - 200x270 cmRent for $955 /mo
    Refinery 2 by Day Bowman
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    Refinery 2 by Day Bowman

    Refinery 2

    Paintings - 200x270 cmRent for $955 /mo
    Fortress 3 by Day Bowman
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    Fortress 3 by Day Bowman

    Fortress 3

    Paintings - 140x150 cm
    Oil (Remnant) 1 by Day Bowman
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    Oil (Remnant) 1 by Day Bowman

    Oil (Remnant) 1

    Paintings - 8x10 cm
    Fortress 4 by Day Bowman
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    Fortress 4 by Day Bowman

    Fortress 4

    Paintings - 140x150 cmRent for $720 /mo
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    Marking Out the Boundaries 10 by Day Bowman

    Marking Out the Boundaries 10

    Drawings - 40x40 cmRent for $62 /mo
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    Marking Out the Boundaries 4 by Day Bowman

    Marking Out the Boundaries 4

    Drawings - 40x40 cmRent for $62 /mo
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    Marking Out the Boundaries 2 by Day Bowman

    Marking Out the Boundaries 2

    Drawings - 40x40 cmRent for $62 /mo
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    Fortress 7 by Day Bowman

    Fortress 7

    Paintings - 140x150 cmRent for $655 /mo
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    Study 10 Fortress Series by Day Bowman

    Study 10 Fortress Series

    Paintings - 40x50 cmRent for $120 /mo
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    Study 7 Fortress Series by Day Bowman

    Study 7 Fortress Series

    Paintings - 40x50 cmRent for $120 /mo

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