William Bowyer RA Walberswick across the meadow

About the artist

WILLIAM BOWYER RA (b. 1926)

WILLIAM BOWYERstudied at Burslem School of Art and the Royal College of Art, where he was taught by Carel Weight and Ruskin Spear. English landscape painters, particularly Constable and Turner, have strongly inspired his work. Bowyer is also a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and, for thirty years, he was a leading figure in the New English Art Club.

Fellow Academician Ken Howard says of his work: ‘The content of his pictures is the artist’s life, whether it be his beloved river at Hammersmith, Walberswick in Suffolk – where he escapes whenever possible – his friends and family, as seen in his strong and challenging portraits, or his life-long love of cricket. Bill Bowyer’s work communicates with us directly. It gives us a way of seeing the world and above all it is life enhancing.’

(From the website of the Royal Academy of Arts)

To visit the website of William Bowyer and his sons, the artists Jason and Francis Bowyer, click here.

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Walberswick image courtesy of Messum's, specialists in British Impressionist, Modern British and Contemporary painting and sculpture: www.messums.com