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					"In a new country I was looking for a new theme, a visual language that I could tap into easily and something that would get the better of me. One day I read something by Henri Matisse; "We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought". This gave me the confidence to use myself as the model and went from there."


	US exhibitions from 2000 june 2011 Out There 825 Gallery, Los Angeles CA june 2010 Out There 825 Gallery, Los Angeles CA march 2010 Being Gay - a visual dialogue between straight and LGBTQ artists 2nd City Council Art Gallery, Long Beach CA june 2009 Open Call LA, Barnsdell Park, Los Angeles CA may 2009 Santa Fe Art Colony Open studios, Los Angeles CA june 2008 Open Call LA, Barnsdell Park, Los Angeles CA march 2008 Art Objects Advocate and Gochis Galleries, Los Angeles CA dec 2007 Deck The Walls Satsuma Gallery, Los Angeles CA dec 2004 Here, West Hollywood CA march 2002 Rio Bravo Fine Arts, T or C NM

Born in England, Bowles lived in London before moving to a small town in Southern New Mexico in 2000 for a couple of years. This was where he began to cultivate his figurative style. Bowles now lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

influences:

Paul Cezanne

Paul Klee

Titian

Mimbres Pottery

Jazz

Alan Watts

Philip Guston

John Coltrane's wife Alice was once asked if her husband was alive what would he be doing now. She quickly replied, "practising'.