Digital collage allows Ceci to easily experiment with textures, patterns and layers. She creates fluid compositions full of movement using vibrant colors and shapes. Ceci started her career working as a stylist for television shows in Los Angeles. She has worked professionally designing textiles for both the fashion and home textile industry. She also creates designs for paper products and book il
lustrations. Ceci lives in her hometown, Berkeley, California, with her husband, three sons, and her dog Winston. She works freelance for clients around the world. Her work is inspired by mid-century illustrations with a dash of vintage fashion. Ceci enjoys working with brilliant colors to evoke the nostalgia found in the 60s and 70s mod posters, paper dolls, and cookbooks. GO GIRLS SERIES
Ceci Bowman created the Go Girl series, dynamic, colorful digital collages portraying strong, beautiful women in motion. Her work, both powerful and charming, inspires people of all ages. Ceci explains, "My art is inspired by my childhood memories of fabric, paper, textures, my mother's sewing and the freedom of childhood. The Go Girls series brings new life to the patterns and joy-filled movement from those days.”
Viewers feel connected to the Go Girls series from their own childhood memories and a sense of nostalgia. The art also connects viewers to the present through strong, dynamic female figures. Ceci's art
also connects viewers to the present through the strong, dynamic female figures in fluid motion. Ceci’s designs use multiple layers of photographs, colors, and transparencies. The vibrant images are giclee prints finished with foils and other mixed media. Ceci grew up in Berkeley and spent her summers visiting grandparents in Weaverville and Mount Shasta. Summer days were spent creating paper dolls, often of characters from books she was reading. She incorporated patterns into her paper doll creations from dishes, linens, and cookbooks from her grandmother’s home.The Go Girls series breathes new life and sophistication into the paper dolls of her past.
“Seeing a familiar fabric or wallpaper brings back a memory of my childhood in the same way a smell can evoke a long-forgotten day. Delta Dawn is inspired by the wallpaper my mother hung in the kitchen of our cabin on the Sacramento River,” said Ceci.
