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.

Selected Works

Marking Out The Boundaries 3 by Day Bowman

Marking Out The Boundaries 3

Paintings - 140x150 cm
Plashy Place 3 by Day Bowman

Plashy Place 3

Paintings - 140x150 cm
Refinery 1 by Day Bowman

Refinery 1

Paintings - 200x270 cm
Refinery 2 by Day Bowman

Refinery 2

Paintings - 200x270 cm
Fortress 3 by Day Bowman

Fortress 3

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

Oil (Remnant) 1

Paintings - 8x10 cm
Fortress 4 by Day Bowman

Fortress 4

Paintings - 140x150 cm
Marking Out the Boundaries 10 by Day Bowman
Marking Out the Boundaries 4 by Day Bowman

Marking Out the Boundaries 4

Drawings - 40x40 cm
Marking Out the Boundaries 2 by Day Bowman

Marking Out the Boundaries 2

Drawings - 40x40 cm

Fortress 7

Paintings - 140x150 cm

Study 10 Fortress Series

Paintings - 40x50 cm

Study 7 Fortress Series

Paintings - 40x50 cm

Study 3 Fortress Series

Paintings - 40x50 cm

Tidepool 7

Paintings - 25x30 cm

Flood and Ebb 7

Paintings - 45x50 cm

Flood and Ebb 6

Paintings - 45x50 cm

Flood and Ebb 2

Paintings - 45x50 cm

Plashy Place 3

Paintings - 140x150 cm

Study 5 Plashy Place

Paintings - 45x50 cm

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