Day Bowman
Water Zones
21 February - 16 March 2006

 
 

From Berwick on Tweed to Penzance, these paintings stand for all things unordered, jumbled and junked. Docks, cranes, crumbling forts, oil drums, rope, rusting metal, ship-like hulks, weather beaten objects that once had a previous life, a history; more wasteland than coastal landscape.

These tough 'water zones' put us in mind of fleeting glimpses from a car or train window or departing ferry. This landscape is not only the point of departure but, for many, that of arrival. Stowaways, sailors and immigrants throughout the ages have cast an eye over these shores.

The works are not concerned with story-telling, but employ all the elements of the picture plane to bring about colour poems which mirror T. S. Eliot's fascination with material redundancy.

D.B.

Day Bowman is also exhibiting at Sherborne House, Dorset.
Coast Works, 4 ­ 26 February, 2006
www.sherbornehouse.org.uk
Tel 01935 816426