Paul Bowen
Elected to the RCA 2001
Born in Colwyn Bay,1951. Lives in Massachusetts,USA. Studied at Newport College of Art and Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore.
Images in Paul Bowen’s sculpture and drawing are dominated,first by things and places from his childhood in North Wales, and later by those from his second home in Provincetown on Cape Cod,another "land’s end". They are simple and direct echoes of his surroundings: fishing boats and gear; driftwood and scraps of lumber; the powerful thrust of rock jetties; the undulating curves of windswept dunes; peeling whitewashed clapboard and cedar shingle bleached gray by sun and salt.