Clare Bowen

Coastal and landscape scenes in water mixable oil or acrylics focusing on a sense of space and the natural beauty of the Isle of Wight.

I am a self taught artist who belongs to a variety of groups including the Cowes Art Group, the Isle of Wight Art Club and the West Wight Painting Circle. I have moved from watercolours to oils or acrylics and particularly enjoy painting with a palette knife as I find it a much more intuitive way of working.

My inspiration comes from walking on the Island. I think of painting as a process rather than an end product, always hoping that the next painting will communicate more effectively than the last. My paintings often focus on conveying a sense of the landscape; the contours, the space or the feel of a place in time.

I am looking forward to exhibiting for the first time with Isle of Wight Open Studios at Carisbrooke Priory.