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Terri Bowen - No Stranger to Art
photo by: Lissa Alexander, PQB News
Terri Bowen, B.Ed., MA.,
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Master Graphologis
“Art evokes a mystery without which the world would not exist!” (Rene Magritte) and who doesn’t like a good mystery? After my 35 year teaching career in my final placement as a principal in a Learning Through the Arts School in Calgary, I moved to beautiful Bowser for its kayaking, nature walks and profusion of arts. I began my involvement in art on the island by volunteering for the 2010 Olympic committee, the Brant Wildlife Festival, various school ventures such as Munchkinland, Bowser School, several PROBUS Clubs’ presentations and the Nanaimo Banner Painting Festival for which I have painted over 30 huge banners.
Over the years after receiving five outstanding all around artist awards from Lighthouse Country Fair, I was thrilled to have one of my paintings reproduced on the cover of the VIU Elder College course calendar and to win the competitive 2020 Art Warz in Parksville. Now I focus mainly on commissions and on teaching for Vancouver Island University’s Elder College and North Island College. I enjoy the challenge of working with artists during my workshops out of Lighthouse Country Community Center (precovid!), where I have presented over 20 different courses to eager learners from Mudge Island to Campbell River.
Our garden has also been part of the G-Art-Den Tour twice in Lighthouse Country, where I both organized the tours and painted with fellow artists. “All gardening is landscape painting.” (Alexander Pope) Commissions Welcome
Together with my husband Brett, who is a painter of political works and landscapes, my great joy is travelling the world to appreciate its great art galleries. I barely made it out of New York and Washington before the pandemic hit, enjoying my visits to the MET, the world’s only National Museum of Women in the Arts and MOMA.
I use my experiences gained from visits to galleries in such as those in Amsterdam, Belgium, Austria, London, Madrid, Barcelona, Florence, Venice, Rome, Paris, Munich, Berlin, Scandinavia, St. Petersburg (Florida) and Scotland, to improve thoughtful feedback to artists who are beginning, progressing through or finishing their various creations. You can reach me by email for feedback, requests and workshop participation at tbowen@shaw.ca
