1924 Ripon, Yorkshire - 1998. Known for: Painting.
Druie Bowett was born in Ripon, Yorkshire. She studied at Harrogate School of Art, under John Cooper, a pupil of Sickert (1940). In 1942 she began a lifelong friendship with Hungarian painter...
Read full biography Druie Bowett was born in Ripon, Yorkshire. She studied at Harrogate School of Art, under John Cooper, a pupil of Sickert (1940). In 1942 she began a lifelong friendship with Hungarian painter Jean-Georges Simon, who opened her eyes to European abstraction. She was instrumental in forming the...
Read full biography Druie Bowett was born in Ripon, Yorkshire. She studied at Harrogate School of Art, under John Cooper, a pupil of Sickert (1940). In 1942 she began a lifelong friendship with Hungarian painter Jean-Georges Simon, who opened her eyes to European abstraction. She was instrumental in forming the Midland Group in the late 1940s - a regionally influential collective of Modernist painters based in Nottingham with links to the St. Ives group, and Wilhemina Barns-Graham. She was also involved with...
Read full biography Druie Bowett was born in Ripon, Yorkshire. She studied at Harrogate School of Art, under John Cooper, a pupil of Sickert (1940). In 1942 she began a lifelong friendship with Hungarian painter Jean-Georges Simon, who opened her eyes to European abstraction. She was instrumental in forming the Midland Group in the late 1940s - a regionally influential collective of Modernist painters based in Nottingham with links to the St. Ives group, and Wilhemina Barns-Graham. She was also involved with artists such as Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Terry Frost and Prunella Clough. She continued exhibiting consistently for five decades. Sandra Blow wrote about Bowett's work in RA Magazine in 1983. Her work is held in numerous public and private...
Read full biography Druie Bowett was born in Ripon, Yorkshire. She studied at Harrogate School of Art, under John Cooper, a pupil of Sickert (1940). In 1942 she began a lifelong friendship with Hungarian painter Jean-Georges Simon, who opened her eyes to European abstraction. She was instrumental in forming the Midland Group in the late 1940s - a regionally influential collective of Modernist painters based in Nottingham with links to the St. Ives group, and Wilhemina Barns-Graham. She was also involved with artists such as Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Terry Frost and Prunella Clough. She continued exhibiting consistently for five decades. Sandra Blow wrote about Bowett's work in RA Magazine in 1983. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections including that of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.