Standing at the easel in her studio, a wooden pavilion at the end of her West Dorset garden, Vanessa Bowman puts the finishing touches to her latest work of art. Renowned for her detailed still-life paintings which observe the simple beauty of nature and everyday objects – a vase of garden flowers, a hen’s feather, a delicate spray of cow parsley or a bowl of plums – the award-winning artist has been much in demand of late. But this new body of work is among a number of exciting commercial commissions that have come her way in the past year.
As well as exhibiting at six galleries, Vanessa has painted a series of garden illustrations for House & Garden magazine, teamed up with Farrow & Ball on a project to launch their ‘Colour by Nature’ collection; and produced seasonal scenes of pheasants and hares for Highgrove’s Christmas card collection.
Her latest exclusive collaboration is with the locally-based fashion brand Kettlewell Colours, which invited her to create a series of vibrant seasonal textile designs for Spring/Summer 2020. The result is a vibrant range of florals and scatter print dresses and tops - each textile design capturing what Art of England Magazine describes as Vanessa’s ‘wonderful eye for colour’.
‘Vanessa understands colour and instinctively knows which shades blend well together'
This story is from the March 2020 edition of Dorset Magazine.
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