Cowell at The Crown
Painter Ruth Cowell is the latest to be displayed at The Crown, which continues to provide vital exhibition support to artists. She has drawn and painted for as long as she can remember and has been fortunate to be able to continue to pursue her passion. She works in her home studio, looking out onto fields and wooded hills. Her surroundings, whether flowers in the garden, trees in the nearby woods or fruit on the table, have always inspired her. On recent holidays, Greece and France have been a source of inspiration, but Influences range from seventeenth-century Spanish still life through to Edward Hopper, then David Hockney.
Eve By the Sea at Sivota, Greece (2018)
Ruth Cowell studied at Goldsmiths College and Wimbledon School of Art, then won a French government scholarship to study painting and printmaking in Montpellier. Here she discovered the light and colour of the South of France, which have remained with her. Later she worked as a researcher at the Wallace Collection, which gave her a further interest in French nineteenth-century Orientalist painting.
She has exhibited in London and the South of England, France and the U.S.A. Her work is in private collections in the United Kingdom, France, Greece, Australia, South America, the Philippines and the USA.
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