After nearly a decade of living in India and Myanmar Kate returned to the UK and lives in Suffolk where she is relishing the stunning Constable/Gainsborough landscape, making new work and exploring printmaking in the Gainsborough House Printroom. She has joined the Colchester Arts Society and works en plein air along the river Stour and on the Suffolk coast, where Orfordness holds a fascination.
She spent four years in Myanmar where she worked on various projects and exhibited in group and solo exhibitions. Worldview International Foundation asked her to create and curate an exhibition to highlight their Reforestation of the Mangroves. After 14 months of field trips, she made a large multi sensory installation art piece. She invited a Burmese artist Htein Lin to make a sculpture to reflect the story of deforestation. In 2017 Kate moved to New Delhi. Kate studied miniature painting with masters in Delhi and Jaipur. During Lockdown she focused on the meditative miniature process, mapping the streets of Delhi. She incorporated memories of her time in India and the subjects that had touched her soul. ‘Dreaming of Sunder Times. She has worked with traditional stone pigments from Rajasthan. Time spent in Jodhpur is another source for works – Rewilding of the Rajasthan Desert with Pradip Krishen. She exhibited at Mehrangagh Fort and Delhi and mentored workshops on Botanical art in the Desert Park. In 2024 Kate was approached by a curator in Bangalore. She worked on a commissioned painting for an exhibit in Bangalore. ‘ The Pastoralists of the Deccan Plateau’ Exhibition: Lightly Journeys with Pastoralists 2025 and in 2026, the year of the pastoralists, the exhibition moves to Pune, India. The link below is an animation made from her painting for the exhibition. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EW70UJ7XD6IC5ticw1kj-AXh84qSQjP6/view?usp=drivesdk Paintings are in collections in USA, Europe, South and South East Asia.
EXHIBITIONS
Solo exhibitions:
- “The Mee Ya Hta Building” Exhibition – The Former Railway Headquarters Building at Gallery 65, Yangon, Myanmar
- Wingrave Yeats, Duke St London W1
- Chelsea Arts Club London SW3
Group exhibitions include:
2026 Carry on Constable Flatford Mill Granary, Colchester Art Society
- 2026 Living Lightly. Journeys with Pastoralists Zapurza Museum of Arts and Culture Pune, India.
- 2025 Living Lightly, Pastoralists of the Deccan Platteau, Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, Bangalore. India.
- 2024 Pond Gallery, Snape Maltings, Snape IP17 1S
- 2024 Open Studios. Long Melford Suffolk CO10 9HY
- 2022 ING Discerning Eye Mall Galleries,The Mall, St. James’s, London SW1Y 5AS
- 2022 The Turban Gallery Mehrangarh Fort Painting the Desert Kate Bowen and Malini Saigal
- 2021 “Silent Disco” curated by Graham Crowley. Wickham Market Suffolk
- 2019 Prithvi Fine Art, A1/232, Safdurjung Enclave, New Delhi. “Journey of Light”
- 2016 ‘Mangroves – The forests of the tide’ Gallery 65, Yangon. Artists Kate Bowen, Htein Lin & Gunnlaug Bina Kuloy, Curated by Kate Bowen.
- https://www.thethirdpole.net/2016/12/02/mangroves-the-forests-of-the-tide/
- 2015 ‘Kate and Me Meet in Yangon.’ With Ko Ko Naing at Nawaday Tharlar Gallery
- 2015 Public Art Performance.’ My Yangon My Home. ‘ In Public space by the statue of Independence.
- 2015 KZL British artist Kate Bowen’s donated work will feature in Art for Victims.
- 2015 2nd Flood appeal Nawaday Tharlar Gallery
- 2013 ‘Discernible’ Exhibition Bond House, London SE14 6BL
- 2013 Private Members Club, the Strand, London WC2
- 2012 Bloomsbury Art Fair London WC1 2AB. ‘Olympic Construction series’
- 2012 Zeitgeist ArtsProjects ‘Collectible’ Bond House, London SE14 6BL
- 2011 Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Competition and exhibition Kings Place, London WC2
- 2011 Bankside Gallery London SE1 9JH. ‘London Lives’
- 2011 Barbican Arts Group ‘Artworks Open’ London (Commended) selector Graham Crowley
- 2010 Exhibition Bankside Gallery London. ‘London Lives’
- 2006 Anstey Modern, Yrico African Art
- 2005 New Grafton Gallery, Barnes, London