Day Bowman

Day is described as an action painter, but whilst the physicality of painting her often very large canvases is powerful in itself, the content is equally important. She becomes deeply involved with the subject matter from which the mood of the work evolves, and her paintings are a visual expression of a personal story and mataphor for life, death and rebirth.

Her series Compass and Sandmarkings are based around the symbolic qualities land and sea, with fluid sweeping movement of paint on canvas, using marine and earth colours with charcoal markings. Her current series - WaterZones - is altogether more grittier, a commentary on the detritus of coastline wastelands, using more angular lines and a predominant palette of ochre, rust and grey.

Within these series, Day explores the artistic possibliities of scale and form, primarily with oils on linen, but looking too at smaller scale works, collage, photomontage and other media.

Day was born in West Somerset and studied at Exeter College of Art and Chelsea School of Art. The WaterZones Project, in collaboration with the photographer Ian Knox and later Steve Harris, musician, has just completed the first stage of a tour at The Study Gallery of Modern Art in Poole, Dorset.