FLOWERS ON THE ANVIL

A Special Studio Exhibition celebrating Twenty Years of Jason Bowyer's Painting and Drawing

A regular contributor to The Artist, Jason is celebrating twenty years of working from his studio at the London Museum of Water and Steam. He has been involved in many collaborations with the Museum through teaching and drawing, exhibiting his work and making Portraits.

'Observation is of prime importance to my work. My paintings develop out of my drawings. There is a constant considered figurative / abstract interplay, a desire to find the essence of my motif whether the subject is an industrial interior or single flower.

Thumbnail sketches that develop into small paintings, mixed media, ink and pastel studies. This starts the creative charge. A finished large painting can take up to five years to make but then be re-painted and finished in an hour. My paintings are made on location, an emotional, visceral response, ideas of light and tension that are then fused together in the studio to make a whole.'

Flowers on the Anvil is at The Oil Store, London Museum of Water and Steam, Green Dragon Lane, Brentford, Middlesex TW8 0EN from October 13 -15, from 11am - 5pm, and afterwards by appointment.

There will be an opportunity to view the larger works on display in the Mezzanine Gallery above the Main Hall of the Steam Museum. These works can be viewed free of charge during Museum opening hours 11am - 4 pm by presenting a catalogue from Jason's Studio exhibition.

www.jasonbowyer.com

www.waterandsteam.org.uk

Below is Flower Structure, oil on canvas, (80x60cm)