'Tearing Up the Rule Book' by Day Bowman

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For over two decades Bowman has consistently made beautifully nuanced abstract works on paper and canvas using a very particular palette. The paintings range greatly in scale and respond to a real, coastal landscape in the south of England as well as reflecting psychological and emotional spaces which are both personal and tran-spersonal. Bowman will additionally be showing new works on paper.

She writes “I find that the large-scale canvases echo the marks, lines and shapes that we made in the wet, grey sand of my home town beach: thus, the canvas becomes the beach that acted as the large- scale canvas of my child-hood. In these works I have allowed myself to move freely from one work to another with a sense of play and random mark-making. Through the use of colour, of scribbled lines and drip marks, contrasting with the blocks of background painted areas, I have attempted to capture the tides and the occasional gleam of sunshine...Whilst these are not overtly political works, through the transformation of paint, I find this current series of paintings squaring the circle of my life and reaffirming my sense of play coupled with a deep sense of unease and questioning the notion of place, identity and belonging.”