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'The Island' 30 x 20" Oil on canvas. Commissioned by J. Jones.
I welcome any commissions of any size in a style and colour scheme of your choice. So please get in touch if your interested! Prices are fair and your piece will be unique. You can email me on bowiesarthouse@hotmail.co.uk
Thanks,
Ed
'Breathe' 10 x 8" Oil on canvas SOLD
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‘Roseus Main’ 48 x 30″ Oil on canvas by Edward Bowie BA £600 February 2010
bowiesarthouse.com July 2009
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An article to be published in a Kent Art Magazine about my work… April 2010
STUDIO SALE – grab a bargain!
Like many artists, in getting ready for the new year, I am having a Christmas sale of all the artworks in my studio that aren’t currently on exhibition. I am in desperate need of some space!!
All prices are 30-60% of the original price.
First come first serve!
If you would like a commission for friend or family (or yourself) over the Christmas period please get in touch. I work using your favourite pieces of mine in mind. Please feel free to get in touch to enquire about prices/sizes. Get in touch quickly though as I am limiting to 5 this year!
'Heat' 30 x 20" Oil on canvas
Thanks,
Ed
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My work in foreground
An exhibition concerned with light in all forms, set in a disused 13th century church. Organised by Mascalls Gallery, Paddock Wood.
Nature is key to the work of Edward Bowie. Halfway between modern impressionism and abstraction, Bowie strives to create a mood. To be able to fully grasp the meaning of Bowie’s work, his entire collection of paintings has to be taken into account as well as the importance of the environment he grew up in. Having spent most of his life in the small village of Solva in Pembrokeshire, Wales, it soon became his inspiration. “Pembrokeshire comes with vast open skies that offer the overpowering sensation of freedom and beauty” he explained. It is that particular feeling of space and freedom that he tried and succeeded to transmit through his art.
His mastering of colours seem to try to reach our inside feelings. We’ve all seen a stunningly beautiful sunrise over a magnificent motionless horizon (‘Newgale Sunrise’) or a raging storm over an out bursting ocean. (‘Breaking Through’) Thus, strong emotions such as joy, sadness or fear are put forward through the sensation of a déjà vu that brings memories back out. The inescapable subjectivity of art here is used to “manipulate your perspective of the world at that moment and in the future” as Bowie judiciously explained.
Furthermore, the artist’s ambivalent work show contrasts in structures, colours and the use of light. It witnesses calmness and regularity in some of his paintings, (‘Anywhere is’, ‘Crimson horizon’) and aims at framing a very peaceful and harmonious piece of nature. ‘Anywhere is’ witnesses an everlasting tranquillity of the world. The two slightly waving lines give rhythm to a perfectly balanced atmosphere. Are those two distinct horizons that lead the viewer into further and deeper questioning, or is it a simple and clever symmetrical effect? It undoubtedly aims at bringing to life an abstract representation of nature drowning and engulfed into the background’s neat gradation of colours. The spectator finds himself into a bubble of intimacy between the purity of natural colours and their unwavering balance, in slow motion.
However, some others (‘Here’, ‘St Justinian’s Sunset’) emphasize on contrasts in the colours and on the brutality and spontaneity of the brush strokes. These effects on the canvas illustrate what is, according to Bowie, one of the most important features of his work: movement. The use of space and colours in works such as “An Unknown Future Awaits”, “Beach Breaker” or more importantly, in “Here” shows a great deal of movement in various forms, the main one being the strong contrasts between the colours. Opposed to the idea of a balanced atmosphere in ‘Anywhere is’, ‘Here’ is a very good illustration of a movement perceived through the colours. The viewer gets lost into this rather complex ocean of tones which carries the eye into the unstoppable coming and going motion of imaginary waves.
In relation with the whole of his work, these two paintings present more abstract characteristics than many others. These features in fact are very useful to the viewer, encouraging him to question the value of the works and giving him freedom of interpretation. Edward Bowie strongly stands in between a work of remembrance of old artistic values by showing his mastering of colours and light and, for example with those two specific works, presents a quite innovative style mixing abstraction with the extraordinary beauty of nature. Their relation with their title can be quite significative. They are both referring to unidentified places. Anywhere can be anywhere, so can Here. This joins the idea of an undefined meaning and an everlasting subjectivity. Like Philip Larkin judiciously wrote in his poem ‘Here’: “Here is unfenced existence: facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.”
Julien JEAN
'After the Rain' 30 x 20" Oil on canvas.
'Dusk over the Bay' 30 x 20" Oil on canvas. £450
