Edward Bowen - Artist - Paintings

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Edward Bowen - Artist - Paintings Various personal texts about my work are included in the evolution of this profile.

25/08/2026

The dogs in a man's mind, in the Y chromozone

A reset of the property frontage, ten years of composting. The ground here was covered with excess material from the sur...
25/08/2026

A reset of the property frontage, ten years of composting. The ground here was covered with excess material from the surrounding garden. The fellas who had been helping me did not fully appreciate that all this stuff had to be chopped and cut up into smaller pieces to speed up the decomposition process, they had just piled stuff into this section where it had become untidy, we could not use the ground. Finally I got one of them just to move thru' with a heavy cutlass, then some raking to even out the ground.
It is a great spot for some cassava cultivation, oregano and flowers to edge the roadside.

16/08/2026

Exhaustion not conviction

16/08/2026

This is interesting.

16/08/2026

1%

16/08/2026

Truth for boys too

"the architect of impossible physics"This is a section, about five or six inches square, from the larger original, now c...
16/08/2026

"the architect of impossible physics"
This is a section, about five or six inches square, from the larger original, now completed and in storage.
This series began back in the late 1980's, one expanded thought which was allowed to go delightfully haywire, back then I perceived this series as an opportunity to really go beyond and test my own comfort zones about art, and the making of "art".
A drawing, the simple action of a pencil on paper has held my attention because of its virtual and economic possibility, the two elements prior to our digital technological revolution was the most common material association perhaps among all modern cultures, gestures on paper have changed lives, fortunes, countries, determined life or death, the gesture itself held sacrosanct, binding, legitimate and authorized. The processes of civilization may hand us a printed form, but we still gotta fu***ng sign it, or put our individual print DNA map on a piece of paper, however this too might soon become history.
The drawing captures the moment between thought and fact, a sequence which might have been predetermined even before the action committed a marking to surface, a scratch in the dirt, some mark chiselled on a rock, signage and symbol, raw data. In drawing there is no machine to turn on or off, yet the action of implement moving in and on a surface, creates a fact in time.
So, how much control do you really have, because when the education system gradually phased out this childhood expressive capacity, and channelled human information via 0 1 2 3 4 5 ......9, and abc......z, a whole personal cognitive system of learning was effectively paralysed, closed down, and even subject to ridicule.

I TEACH DRAWING AND PAINTING

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Sans Souci Estate Eco Guesthouse and Artists' Retreat The yard, the raking, composting.Blowers make too much noise and d...
05/07/2026

Sans Souci Estate Eco Guesthouse and Artists' Retreat
The yard, the raking, composting.
Blowers make too much noise and disturbs the more pleasant sounds of this site. This is ten hours raking, after the whacker has passed, and including the 200+ feet of driveway. I have been doing this for 20+ years, it's like one extended thought, each time to re-organize several wheelbarrow loads of cut grasses and leaf-fall to layer into the composting beds. On this occasion I had some extra help in bringing up some ten jumbo bags of leaves from three other compost piles along the driveway, adding to the bulking and organic complexity of the process.
Anyway, a highly productive weekend. There is a drawing on the table upstairs about this raking, about seven feet by three feet, uncovered on the working table on the big open porch, the paper buckles with the humidity and dryer daily cycles, salty airs, rainwater in the morning mists, thoughts and movements just like outside, an order is there to do with the place itself.

05/07/2026

Hahahahahaha

04/07/2026

Manual!

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