Venue Address: Brooklands Barn, Priory Lane BN18 0BG
Lara Bowen is a painter whose work explores colour, memory and emotion through expressive mark-making and vibrant palettes. Using the still life - most often flowers in vases - as a starting point, her paintings reflect on the passage of time and the fleeting nature of moments, balancing joy and melancholy through colour, light and form.
Lara works largely from memory rather than direct observation. Photographs taken during daily walks and travels often capture particular colours, shapes and qualities of light that later surface in the paintings. These images are rarely used as direct references, but they quietly inform the atmosphere and structure of the work, creating compositions that feel both familiar and slightly abstracted from reality.
Alongside these works she also makes looser abstract paintings where colour takes the lead. In these pieces bold, committed marks and layered pigments create energetic surfaces that emphasise gesture, rhythm and the physical act of painting, allowing colour and movement to guide the composition.
Lara also produces the Colourful Language series - playful colour charts that link colour with the language we use to describe feelings, places and shared experiences.
Across painting, photography and text-based works, Lara’s practice reflects an ongoing interest in how colour, memory and small observations shape our sense of place and experience.
Instagram @larabowen.studio
Email: larabowen@me.com
Tel: 07909511159