Claire Bowman’s career as a performing musician precipitated an uprootedness that has impacted much of her life. She and her twin sister form the acclaimed music duo, The Bowmans. They've toured extensively and recorded five albums.

Painting serves as an antidote to a transient existence. In her figurative works, mundane interactions and ordinary objects are suffused with bold, immutable light. Her landscapes seek to preserve natural vistas despite the man made structures that obstruct and encroach upon them.

Bowman’s works have exhibited in New York, California, Switzerland, and Portugal and she’s been selected for residencies in Tunisia, Switzerland, and Florida.

The compulsion to roam fused with the urge to preserve significant moments was born out of an uprootedness that has impacted much of Claire’s adult life. She and her twin sister, Sarah, form the acclaimed music duo, The Bowmans, which, over a period of several years, toured continuously throughout the U.S. and Europe. During this nomadic period, Claire resided in multiple locations, notably New York, NY; Bern, Switzerland; and briefly in Los Angeles, CA. Before that, she called Pittsburgh, PA, and subsequently Baltimore, MD, her home while earning degrees in philosophy and psychology. Through that kind of transitory existence, it became apparent which moments ended up being most impactful. And as online experience continues to eclipse that of the material, these moments seem even more invaluable.

Claire has exhibited in group shows in New York City (2012), Richmond, CA (2017), Berkeley and Santa Ana, CA (2018) and held a solo exhibition in Hergiswil, and again in Stans, Switzerland (following an artist residency at Universe 9) in January, 2019 and a larger solo exhibit of illustrations in Stans, Switzerland in 2014. She will also be exhibiting works in Berkeley, CA and Lisbon, Portugal in 2019. Her work has also appeared in various print and online publications in Europe and the U.S. In 2013, Claire authored and illustrated the acclaimed children’s story, “Mert, the Anxious Evergreen.”

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