Peter Bowen
Peter Bowen
Peter Bowen BA Graphic Design, MBA Marketing, is an accomplished graphic designer and professional watercolour artist. Educated at the former West of England College of Art where he studied Graphic Design. He fondly remembers his high school art teacher and mentor John Stopps RWA, who encouraged him to be a designer.
His unique style of painting architectural subjects with humorous situations has earned him an international reputation during the last 25 years with much of his work in private collections in Canada, the United States and Great Britain.
Ideas for pictures often start as a collection of ideas of things that I have seen and I create a composition in my mind that I think would work. "Often I start sketching directly on to watercolour paper with a fine pen, letting the lines do the work and form the framework of the picture". Colour elements follow and start to bring life to the work. Shading and tonal colour adds dimension to the framework of shapes.
Calendar of Shows 2008
Greenpark Station, Bath, Somerset
- Bath Open Art Fair 20 May - 1 June 2008
The Royal Bath and West of England Show, Somerset
- Art Exhibition 28 - 31 May 2008
Clifton Arts Club, Bristol
- 100th Open Exhibition 19 July - 2 August 2008
Clevedon Art Club, Clevedon
- 52nd Open Exhibition 16 - 30 August 2008
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
- 156th Autumn Exhibition 26 October - 14 December 2008
Shows - 2007
Wells, Somerset
- Spring Craft Fair, Wells Town Hall, 24 March 2007
Salisbury
- Craft Fair, Guildhall, 31 March 2007
Wells, Somerset
- Easter Craft Festival, Wells Town Hall, 6-7 April 2007
Weymouth
- Weymouth Pavillion, 6 May 2007
Hertfordshire
- Hatfield House, 10-13 May 2007
Sherbourne
-- Digby Church Hall, 30 June 2007
Shows - 2006
Weston Super Mare
- Winter Gardens 14/15 October 2006
Warminster
- Assembly Hall 28 October 2006
Salisbury
- Guildhall 11 November 2006
Arts Markets
- Warwick Racecourse 10 December 2006
Exhibitions 2007
Royal Bath and West Show Art Exhibition 2007
30 May to 2 June 2007
The Great Markethouse Tetbury - Watercolour 2007 Accepted
Bath Society of Artists 102nd Exhibition 2007
16 June to 27 July 2007
Country Wash - Watercolour 2006 Accepted
Clifton Arts Club 99th Annual Exhibition 2007
16 to 28 July 2007
Christmas at the Pole - Watercolour 2006 Accepted
The Saatchi Gallery : London Contemporary Art Gallery
Four 2-hour Art Classes in Wells Somerset
Discovering Form and Function
- Basic drawing and sketching in Pencil
Creating the Scene
- Pen and ink line drawing and combining elements to create the picture
Let Yourself Go
- Creative expression and Watercolour techniques
Watercolour for Fun
- Watercolour painting techniques
* please contact:
Peter Bowen
art@peterbowen.net
07989 163152
Master Graphic Designers of Canada(MGDC)
Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario (RGD)
Niagara Region Entrepreneur of the Year (1994)
Coloured Pencil, Drawing, Pastels, Pen & Ink, Pen And Wash, Pencil/Charcoal, Water soluble pastels, Watercolour, Watercolour Pencil
Buildings, Illustration, Landscape, Skies, Still Life, Townscapes, Trees and Foliage
Somerset, United Kingdom mainland