Kate Bowen

Kate Bowen is a painter and printmaker living in Suffolk, on the Essex border. Her paintings are shaped by a deep curiosity and a love of colour, light and shadow, and move between vast landscapes and intricate, jewel-like detail.

She took her art foundation at St Albans School of Art and a BA in Fine Art at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design. She then trained and worked for Paul Mitchell Conservation of Paintings in New Bond Street, London, and studied life drawing at the Royal Academy and elsewhere.

After nearly a decade living in India and Myanmar, Bowen returned to the UK. She is relishing the Constable and Gainsborough landscape, making new work and exploring printmaking in the Gainsborough's House Printroom. She has joined Colchester Art Society and works en plein air along the river Stour and on the Suffolk coast, where Orfordness holds a fascination.

In Myanmar she spent fourteen months researching and working in the Irrawaddy Delta mangrove reforestation project, which produced a body of large canvases and an installation shown in Yangon. She helped plan projects and run workshops for the Myanmar Arts Social Project, and volunteered for the Centre for New Perspectives in New Delhi. Her paintings are in collections in the USA, Europe, South and South East Asia.