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It is my desire to honor and celebrate the natural world by creating timeless and magical new "landscapes, " rich with color, soul and imagination. My paintings are created through many layers of intuitive mark-making, bold experimentations with color and careful rendering of organic forms. These "characters": wings, sprouts, hives, branches, petals and pods morph into semi-abstract forms and co-mingle with color fields to create new places born of the painting process. I leave "windows" into otherwise covered layers of paint to draw the viewer deeper into the landscapes, while etching, dripping, stamping and "dotting" enliven the forms and highlight their connectivity to each other.
Ultimately, I find purpose in the very act of observation, relating forms and colors to each other, and allowing new stories to unfold before me. My finished paintings are not meant to be conclusive, rather they are a celebration of the present moment, chaotic, subtle, beautiful, mystical and ever-changing.
Bio:
Flora S. Bowley is an emerging Northwest painter known for her playful and continually revealing compositions of semi-abstract forms, as well as her vibrant and unpredictable use of color. Bowley lives and works full time as a painter in Portland, OR, where she is surrounded by beautiful gardens, magical forests, constantly changing seasons, and a multitude of tiny living things. Other sources of inspiration come from travelling the world, dance, yoga, Burning Man, and connecting with other creatve souls. Bowley's work is represented by numerous galleries across the United States.
Observation:
"I just took another look at your work. Wow, I'm enthralled, it's breathtaking. To me the work is very spiritual because it goes way beyond the apparent first glance of the natural world and captures a timelss moment, beyond time that is. Non-abstract images that read as abstract (I love that) reminds me of quantum physics in that what we perceive as a solid world is actually an energy soup. You are capturing the essence of the material world and the spirit underneath it."
-Robert Gigliotti, sculptor
Flora S. Bowley
Born Green Bay, WI, 1974
Education
1997-1999 Western State College, Gunnision, CO: BFA
1993-1997 University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Select Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2006/7/8/9 Artforte Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009 Lunar Boy Gallery, Astoria, OR
2009 Bohemia Gallery, Ashland, OR
2009 Guardino Gallery, Portland, OR
2009 Ink and Peat, Portland, OR
2009 Lark and Key Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2008 Greener Lifestyles, Seattle, WA
2006/7 Moxy Studios Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2005/6 Lucia Douglas Gallery, Bellingham, WA
2005 Trofeo Gallery, Seattle, WA
2004 Pitcarin Scott Gallery, Seattle, WA
2004 The Virginia Inn, Seattle, WA
2003 Picture Source Gallery, Seattle, WA
2003 Victrola, Seattle, WA
2003 ACE Studios Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002 The People's Cafe, San Francisco, CA
1999 Crested Butte Center for the Arts, CO
Select Group Exhibitions
2006/7/8/9 Artforte Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007/8/9 Fresh Paint Art Advisors, Culver City, CA
2007/8/9 Robin Ficara Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
2009 "Enormous Tiny Art Show," L.A., CA
2009 Launch Pad, "Love Show," Portland, OR
2007/8/9 Environment 337, New York, NY
2007/8 Matisa En Casa, Puerto Rico
2008/9 Lark and Key Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2008 Guardino Gallery, Portland, OR
2007/8 "Thirty" shows, Portland, OR
2005 Sopa Fine Arts, Kelowna, B.C., Canada
2004 Lucia Douglas Gallery, Bellingham, WA
2004 Insights Gallery, Anacortes, WA
2004 Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA
2004 Artist Trust Auction, Seattle, WA
2004 Built: Art and Design, Seattle, WA
2004 Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, WA
2004 Local Color, Seattle, WA
2004 Blue Bottle Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2003/4 Forgotten Works Gallery, Seattle, WA
2003 Artemis Gallery, Seattle, WA
Professional Experience
2009/8/7 Curator, "The Thirty! Shows" Portland, OR
2008/9 Board Member, Artists For the Arts,
Portland, OR
2008 Installation Artist, Burning Man, NV
2006/7 Arts Writer, PDX Magazine, Portland, OR
2005/6 Co-Founder, Emergency Communities,
Post-Katrina St. Bernard Parish, LA
2000/1 Instructor, Art Star Non-Profit, Seattle, WA
1999/0 Instructor, Life Drawing, Sonora, CA
Commissions/Clients
Avo Fine Art, San Diego, CA
Bhakti Shop Yoga Studio, Portland, OR
Burien Center for the Arts, Burien, WA
Casey Connor, cd cover, Bellingham, WA
Cristina Orbe, cd cover, Seattle, WA
Harmonica Pocket, cd cover, Seattle, WA
Hotel Andra, Seattle, WA
Jodi Beth Morrison, cd cover, B.C., Canada
Peace Health Hospital, Eugene, OR
Kitchen 232, Seattle, WA
NBBJ Designs, Seattle, WA
People's Yoga, Portland, OR
Rachael Ray, New York, NY
Tenues Press, New York, NY
Urban Health, Seattle, WA
Valley Medical Hospital, Seattle, WA
Gallery Representation
Artforte Gallery, Seattle, WA
Bohemia Gallery, Ashland, OR
Environment 337, New York, NY
Fresh Paint Art Advisors, Culver City, CA
Heidi McBride Art Consultant and Gallery, Portland, OR
Lark and Key Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Lucia Douglas Gallery, Bellingham, WA
Lunar Boy Gallery, Astoria, OR
Please click on the gallery for more information.
Artforte Gallery, Seattle, WA
Ongoing representation of new work
Fresh Paint Art Advisors, Culver City, CA
Ongoing representation of select work
Environment 337, New York, NY
Ongoing representation of small work
Lunar Boy Gallery, Astoria, OR
" Bloomtime," solo show
May 7th-June 7th, 2009
Ink and Peat Gallery, Portland, OR
"Sping Forth," solo show
May 22nd - June 22nd, 2009
Guardino Gallery, Portland, OR
Two-person show
May 28th - June 25th, 2009
Bohemia Gallery, Ashland, OR
"Embrace"
July, 2009
Lark and Key Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Two-person show
September, 2009
Texture Home, Bellingham, WA
Featured artist
November, 2009
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