Day Bowman

Day Bowman’s abstracted paintings explore geopolitics, borders, boundaries and migration. Raised in the West Country on the coast, her work is grounded in both the land and the outlying ocean as celebrated in her Seaside Citadels and Marking the Boundary series. Her work treads the boundary between abstraction and figuration creating complex works full of movement and colour. Earth & Angels, a duo show with Gerry Judah and curated by Jenny Blyth at 30 Fenchurch Street, Bishopsgate, City of London was much praised by Brookfield Properties. A number of these works are now available on the Rise Art website.

DAY BOWMAN: EARLY CAREER AND PRACTICE

Studied at Chelsea School of Art and London University. Day’s painting is characterised by chaotic mark-making, explosive colour, ribbon-like lines and spills of paint. Gestural brushstrokes, an atmospheric palette, as can be seen in her latest series Marking Out the Boundaries, and use of mixed media such as charcoal and conte oil paint on canvas all contribute to the strong and arresting works.

AWARDS AND COLLECTIONS

Winner of the Anima Mundi International Painting Prize, which was exhibited at the Venice Biennale 2019, winner of the Bath Arts Open and the inaugural Wales Contemporary Prize 2019. This was followed by the Winsor and Newton Prize 2020 awarded by the Royal Institute for Painters in Watercolours. 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 is a member of Contemporary British Painting and exhibits regularly in both the UK and internationally. Her work is held in numerous private and public collections worldwide including Hilton Hotel Group, British Dental Association, Dorset County Hospital, St. Vincent and the Grenadines Govt. Art Collection, the Priseman Seabrook Collection and the Yantai Art Museum Collection China.