130 Dover Rd
Williamsville, VT  05362
802-348-9902
paulbowen@svcable.net
www.paulbowen.com

Paul Bowen, who grew up in a seaside town in Wales, lived and worked near the waterfront in Provincetown, MA, on Cape Cod, for 30 years. He has always been interested in material with a history--wood he has scavenged that was once part of ships, houses, salt works, barrels, cable drums, or crates. He has also worked with ships’ flags, tar, canvas, rope and other marine detritus. His drawings and prints derive their imagery from his environment and he has created his own inks from squid, Xerox toner and walnuts.

His small-scale sculptures, constructed from wood fragments, use limited means such as stacking, piling, and simple carpentry and often appear to float across or torque away from the surface of the wall. He also builds large-scale sculptures, primarily commissioned for private homes and museums, with massive timbers, like those culled from old beer vats and other salvaged sources.

Since moving to Williamsville with his wife in September 2005, Bowen has been working on a series of drawings based on Rock River. Trips to slate quarries and Hope Cemetery in Barre, with its unusual granite tombstones, have been the inspiration for his new work.

Bowen has been a recipient of fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center and the Welsh Arts Council. He was Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College in 2005 and has had retrospective exhibitions at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in Provincetown, MA and the Cape Museum of Fine Arts in Dennis, MA. His work is in many private and public collections including the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA.

"RR #1"
watercolor on paper

"RR #6"
watercolor on paper

"Tilted House"
wood

untitled
wood and tar