#18 Dorothy Bunny Bowen

http://www.db-bowen.com/index.htm

Dorothy started out as a painter and art historian. She received her BA in studio Art from Randolph Macon Woman's college in Lynchburg, VA and her MA in Art History from the University of New Mexico. In 1980 is when Dorothy discovered batik after working as a textile research associate at the Museum of International Folk Art for 10 years. She likes batik because it combines her love for textiles and her training as a painter. The theme that Bowen likes to focus on in her work is water. She lives the in Dessert in the Southwest so she says she is very aware of every drop that falls, flows, or evaporated anywhere nearby. Dorothy is a believer that we should live lightly on this earth and live in awe of its magnificence and she hopes that this belief is present in her artwork.
http://www.db-bowen.com/recent/recent-album/pages/morning_glory.htm


The image that I picked of her work is called God's Glory in the morning. I love the colors in this work. I love how it is depicting to morning glories in the morning as the orange glow of the sunrise is in the background. She did a really good just at making the orange in the background glow. It is also nice that she didn't feel the need to show every little detail such as in the leaves and the flower pedals but that you are still able to tell exactly what kind of flower it is even if she hadn't told us in the title.