by Clare Bowen | May 31, 2020 | Artist Life, Still Life
Long time no write…I have been painting a lot in my studio and garden and selling on instagram through the #artistsupportpledge – “Due to the COVID 19 pandemic many artists have found themselves without work, exhibitions being cancelled and sales...
by Clare Bowen | Nov 27, 2019 | Artist Life, Seascape, Venice
I have never done an art society demo before this one…. at Leatherhead Art Club. The brief was to scale up a small plein air and describe my process. I was really anxious before as I didn’t know if I could speak and paint at the same time! It’s...
by Clare Bowen | Nov 12, 2019 | Artist Life, Artist Tips, TV
Preparation I have waited for three years to do the Sky Landscape Artist the Year as I didn’t feel ready before. For those who who haven’t seen it, it’s a TV art competition with 8 artists in each of the 6 heats. The idea is to complete a painting in 4 hours...
by Clare Bowen | Oct 23, 2019 | America, Artist Life, Buildings, Townscape
I’m here in America to paint, visit friends and God Children. The last time I visited was in 2003 and this is the first time I’ve painted in the States! It feels a bit of a culture shock, so different to Surrey, England! Also just acclimatising from the...
by Clare Bowen | Oct 21, 2019 | Artist Life, London, Surrey
Voted by the public out of 300 Surrey artists down to 15 and now the top 3. I am so pleased to be awarded runner up in The Surrey Artist of the Year! Public votes means a lot as it shows people like my work (I must be on the right track) and they want to buy it...
by Clare Bowen | Oct 3, 2019 | Artist Life, Boats, Oil Painting, Seascape, Studio, Sunrise, Venice
It’s like unwrapping old friends once back in the studio seeing all my paintings again and in such better light than the house we had in Venice. Felt quite excited seeing them all as a group. Several unfinished but wont take long to get them done.. Extras I...
by Clare Bowen | May 27, 2019 | Artist Life, London
The last few weeks have felt a whirl wind and I’m finally able to do a blog post about my solo exhibition! My husband Nick and I drove up on the Sunday unloaded a whole van full of stuff and started to unwrap the paintings. Monday spent all day hanging the show....
by Clare Bowen | Mar 21, 2019 | Artist Life, Buildings, Cityscape, London, Uncategorized
It’s funny how you can love a painting you’ve done one moment & hate it the next. I started this last year en plein air & abandoned it in disgust when I got home. Saw it again recently & thought that’s worth working on! & now I’m happy with the result....
by Clare Bowen | Dec 30, 2018 | 2018, Artist Life, Award, Competition, Landscape, Snow landscape, Studio, Venice
My favourite paintings of the yearI wanted to write a summary of this years happenings….I have completed a whopping 160 paintings (not including the duffers and wipe offs!) quite a few more than last year – mainly because of the Venice trip. And it’s...
by Clare Bowen | Oct 9, 2018 | Academia Bridge, Artist Life, exhibition, Italy, Maria Della Salute, St Marks Square, Studio, The Grand Canal, Venice
Home from Venice and my studio line up, I can’t fit them all in! I do feel pleased and proud with what I achieved in a month. I felt sad leaving such a wonderful & inspiring place. I am already planning a trip to go back next year! I enjoyed...
by Clare Bowen | Aug 31, 2018 | Artist Life, Artist Tips, Equipment, Studio, Travel, Venice
FLYING WITH OIL PAINTS & art equipment. Thought you might want to see what I’m taking to Venice – I am very lucky to be going for the whole month of September! ???? It’s the longest and biggest painting trip so far…. Last year we...
by Clare Bowen | Jun 21, 2018 | Artist Life, Flowers, Peonies, Pink, Still Life, Studio
This is a whopper for me – two foot by two foot! I enjoyed it and surprised myself that I could do it and it turned out nicely :-)I did start on a a 11×14″ but it still felt crampt so I routelled around in my cupboard and found this canvas, I...
by Clare Bowen | Jun 16, 2018 | Artist Life, Daisies, England, Flowers, Oil Painting, Open Studios, Pink, Still Life, Surrey
I am enjoying these still life paintings as you can experiment so much with colour & harmonies, composition, subject…I tried with no hard line background this time, bigger in size and reflected vase on the table.I can’t write so much today as just...
by Clare Bowen | Jun 3, 2018 | Artist Life, England, exhibition, Flowers, Oil Painting, Open Studios, Peonies, Pink, Still Life
Painted with haste and gusto! The background a blue black to set of the light pink flowers peonies which are so fun to paint, quite addictive! (There will be more 🙂 I think they are a good subject because of the globe shape so you get great light and dark on...
by Clare Bowen | Jun 1, 2018 | Artist Life, England, Oil Painting, Open Studios, Portrait
My first attempt at a portrait!! I haven’t even tried to paint one in my studio, just felt quite scary and uncertain, so went on a ROI painting day at The Mall Galleries to make me do it! I decided to act as if…. pretend I felt confident even though I...
