by Karen Bowers | Jun 1, 2017 | 2017, LANDSCAPE PAINTING, NATURE, NEWS, RECENT WORK, TUITION, WORK IN PROGRESS
A big thank you to Candia McKormack who asked some fab questions for the 5 minute interview, as part of the June issue of Cotswold Life. I love the title she came up with, ‘like a natural woman’, a long time favourite song of mine….. The article has...
by Karen Bowers | May 23, 2017 | 2017, LANDSCAPE PAINTING, RECENT WORK, SEASONS, SMALL DETAILS, WORK IN PROGRESS
This is an attempt to describe a paintings progress or process – it isn’t the same every time …maybe this time was different because I am trying to shift things and I find that hard – above is the beginning of a painting and the end of it (for...
by Karen Bowers | Feb 26, 2017 | 2016, 2017, NATURE, RECENT WORK, SEASONS, TUITION, WORK IN PROGRESS
These kind words below are from the ladies that came to my 3 day workshop in the Winter … here are a couple of images of their gorgeous work that they made over the 3 days ….some very quick charcoal drawings…to get ‘the eye in’ ‘I...
by Karen Bowers | Feb 26, 2017 | 2017, LANDSCAPE PAINTING, NATURE, NEWS, TUITION, WORK IN PROGRESS
I am running regular Monday art classes from my home and studio nestled along the lovely valley in Chedworth, Gloucestershire. Below are photos of the front garden in summer and winter, the studio set up for still life in the winter and the lane and valley at the end...
by Karen Bowers | Nov 29, 2016 | NATURE, RECENT WORK, SEASONS, TUITION, WORK IN PROGRESS
After a few hours these ladies are producing some wonderful fluid and colourful work – we have been looking at Bonnard and Anne Redpath along with many other painters of still life. One of the aims over the last couple of sessions has been to look carefully at...
by Karen Bowers | Nov 27, 2016 | 2016, NATURE, TUITION, WORK IN PROGRESS
These lovely ladies are making their preliminary sketches for a still life painting. We have been using a variety of different techniques and materials to draw fluidly and quickly, referring and looking carefully at the scale and placement of objects within the still...