DOI Heft:
No. 376 (July 1924)
DOI Artikel:[Notes: one hundred and ninety-three illustrations]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21400#0060
LEEDS—EDINBURGH
LEEDS—Exhibitions in the North of
England often contain delightful
examples of the work of Mr. Owen
Bowen ; refreshing glimpses of nature in
the open country, which is the artist's
master. 00000
Owen Bowen is of Welsh extraction,
though he was born in Leeds and studied
there under the late Gilbert Foster. His
home and main painting ground is in
Wharfedale near the famous Harewood
country, though Scotland and Norfolk
have attractions for him, as well as Brittany
and Holland. His work has been exhibited
at most Royal Academy exhibitions during
the last 30 years, and in other Metropolitan
exhibitions, and is represented in many
collections in England and America and
in the public galleries of Yorkshire. a
He also exhibits at the Royal Scottish
Academy. 00000
Mr. Bowen is a painter of weather—
nature in all moods, and as a consequence,
his work is full of variety and avoids the
staleness of reiteration. It is direct and
generally vivid, and although he has
worked in Scotland he has maintained the
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" BACK TO THE PASTURES "
BY OWEN BOWEN, R.O.I.
character which differentiates English from
Scottish work. 0000
In all landscape work, however varied, it
seems that certain laws obtain—truth,
born of love of the subject; directness,
necessary to the task of coping with that
subject's constant change ; the big outlook
which is not disturbed by trifling peculiar-
ities but keeps always to construction ; and
a power to approximate to the magic thrill
of colour. Mr. Bowen abides the laws
that pertain to his art. J. W. S.
EDINBURGH.—To appreciate fully
the work of certain artists it is some-
times an additional pleasure to hear the
artist's own opinions, though even then it
is well to remember that we really have no
permanent ones until our mental growth
is done. A few years ago I gathered from
Mr. Robertson certain of his opinions rela-
tive to his own outlook on art, his aim
being to strive to give pictorial form to the
things in life that invade his consciousness
with the mood of beauty, it mattering
nothing what the subject is. Whether he
has reorganised any of his beliefs or not
LEEDS—Exhibitions in the North of
England often contain delightful
examples of the work of Mr. Owen
Bowen ; refreshing glimpses of nature in
the open country, which is the artist's
master. 00000
Owen Bowen is of Welsh extraction,
though he was born in Leeds and studied
there under the late Gilbert Foster. His
home and main painting ground is in
Wharfedale near the famous Harewood
country, though Scotland and Norfolk
have attractions for him, as well as Brittany
and Holland. His work has been exhibited
at most Royal Academy exhibitions during
the last 30 years, and in other Metropolitan
exhibitions, and is represented in many
collections in England and America and
in the public galleries of Yorkshire. a
He also exhibits at the Royal Scottish
Academy. 00000
Mr. Bowen is a painter of weather—
nature in all moods, and as a consequence,
his work is full of variety and avoids the
staleness of reiteration. It is direct and
generally vivid, and although he has
worked in Scotland he has maintained the
40
" BACK TO THE PASTURES "
BY OWEN BOWEN, R.O.I.
character which differentiates English from
Scottish work. 0000
In all landscape work, however varied, it
seems that certain laws obtain—truth,
born of love of the subject; directness,
necessary to the task of coping with that
subject's constant change ; the big outlook
which is not disturbed by trifling peculiar-
ities but keeps always to construction ; and
a power to approximate to the magic thrill
of colour. Mr. Bowen abides the laws
that pertain to his art. J. W. S.
EDINBURGH.—To appreciate fully
the work of certain artists it is some-
times an additional pleasure to hear the
artist's own opinions, though even then it
is well to remember that we really have no
permanent ones until our mental growth
is done. A few years ago I gathered from
Mr. Robertson certain of his opinions rela-
tive to his own outlook on art, his aim
being to strive to give pictorial form to the
things in life that invade his consciousness
with the mood of beauty, it mattering
nothing what the subject is. Whether he
has reorganised any of his beliefs or not