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1924 - 1998
Born in Ripon, Yorkshire. She studied at Harrogate School of Art, under John Cooper, a pupil of Sickert (1940). Bowett's early work is drawn from the Antique, life drawing, industrial and pastoral landscape. In 1942 she began a lifelong friendship with Hungarian painter Jean-Georges Simon, who opened her eyes to European abstraction, with its bright colours and formal discipline. She was instrumental in forming the Midland Group in the late 1940s – a regionally influential collective of Modernist painters based in Nottingham with links to the St. Ives group, and Wilhemina Barns-Graham. She was also involved with artists such as Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Terry Frost and Prunella Clough. Began an enduring friendship with the founder of the group, Evelyn Gibbs. He work began to move in style towards abstraction in the early 1950s. The Duke of Edinburgh purchased Renishaw Iron Works in 1958.
She continued exhibiting consistently for five decades. Sandra Blow wrote about Bowett’s paintings in RA Magazine in 1983.
Exhibitions Include:
Midland Group Gallery; Austin Hayes, York; Cooper Gallery, Barnsley; Wakefield City Art Gallery; Sheffield University; North Eastern Association for the Arts; Art in Yorkshire; Abbot Hall, Kendal; Nottingham Playhouse; Vaccarino Arte Contemporanea, Florence; 359 Gallery, Nottingham; Drian Gallery, London; Crane Kalman, London; Cartwright Hall, Bradford; Angel Row Gallery; Gallery 58, Gainsborough (retrospective solo exhibition)