Rich Bowman

For Bowman, growing up among the fields and vast plains of Sherman, TX, was a childhood of joy and hard work. For years he struggled to find peace with his paintings. He came to the realization that the detail and craft of his illustrative past are secondary to the emotional quality and truth of his work today. Free to paint without the burden of a camera’s detail, the landscapes come from a place filled with feeling, a place that he knows well. It was only a matter of time before it would find its way from his head and onto his canvas. The result is that Bowman’s works are both passionate and poetic, dramatic and subtle. He lures the viewer with patches of color juxtaposed to contrast and intrigue.

“My paintings today are a direct result of my upbringing and my many years of creating, trying to capture the emotion I have felt from viewing a scene,” he explains. “My paintings are not about the details of a specific place. I try to convey a feeling of time and atmosphere through texture, design, and color. My goal is to trigger a familiar feeling in the viewer as they connect to a painting.”