Women in Art - Raising the Bar
15 FEBRUARY 2022 - 08 MARCH 2022
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28. Day Bowman
Plashy Place 1
Plashy Place 1
Oil, Charcoal and Conte on Canvas
173 cm h x 200 cm w x 4 cm d Unframed
2019
Signed on reverse
‘But while he passed before a plashy place,
A lug-worm with its grey and muddy mouth
Sang how somewhere to north or west or south
There dwelt a gay, exulting, gentle race….’
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) : The Man who Dreamed of Faeryland
Bowman returns to the beaches of childhood in her recent work Plashy Places. Wet sand glistens as the incoming and receding tides of Flood and Ebb erase calligraphic marks etched momentarily into surface, where the pooling of seawater and reflections play out in oil on canvas. Capturing the abandon of play, Bowman recalls W B Yeats’ The Man who Dreamed of Faeryland, who, careworn with the fears and concerns of adulthood, observes the humble lugworm rising to the surface, singing of higher places and golden skies …
So, Day Bowman’s beach paintings of Plashy Places capture the magic and beauty
of the littoral shoreline, a perpetual dance between sea and land - that tangential, kinetic point at which figuration and abstraction play out.
(Notes from the Catalogue for Plashy Places. Text by Jenny Blyth, curator.)
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£4,000 - 8,500
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Notes
A graduate of the Chelsea School of Art, London, her work is characterised by chaotic mark-making and gestural brushstrokes. Much of her work harbours subtle political undertones, pertaining to a wave of environmental decay, industrial waste and intolerance
AWARDS AND COLLECTIONS
In the past twelve months her work has gained first prize in the Anima Mundi International Painting Prize and exhibited at the Venice Biennale 2019; this was quickly followed by being awarded first prize in the Bath Arts Open 2019 and first prize for the inaugural Wales Contemporary 2019. Most recently Day was awarded the Winsor & Newton Prize 2020 by the Royal Institute for Painters in Watercolours.
Tearing up the Rule Book, a solo international exhibition at Westminster Reference Library London and Atelier Melusine France was praised by critics and bloggers at its London showing in March 2019. 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’s work is held in numerous private and public collections worldwide including Hilton Hotel Group; British Dental Association; Dorset County Hospital, St. Vincent and Grenadines Govt. Art Collection, the Priseman Seabrook Collection and the Yantai Art Museum Collection China.
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