• Chelsea Sniffing The Ground and Lifting Her Doggy Head Up At My Bedroom Window, 2014
• The Trees Are Pushing Their Trunks Up, Lifting Their Branches and Making Quiet Noises, 2014
The trees are pushing their trunks. The trees are at the cottage and Bob says let the trees stay. The trees are listening and wondering what he is saying. Why is Bob telling us to stay still? Bob waters the trees. They are probably asleep. They start drinking. It’s going to rain, the wind is blowing. Just relax it’s just the trees. The fireplace burns out and everything is quiet. Chelsea sniffing the ground…. Chelsea is lifting her head and looking across the fence, moving her feet back and forth looking at all the flowers giving them lots of sniffs. She lies on the deck and looks around and stretches her feet out. She watches Bob cut the grass. Linda comes out with her watering can and gives the flowers a nice sprinkle. I’m digging away. I have my purple dress on. I smell the hot flowers. Chelsea lifts her head up. The flowers want to know what I’m doing. I say I’m watering the garden before the rain comes.
Bella Bowes’ work is as intuitive and fluid as her dance practice. She has many stories that – as the titles of the work suggest – are powerful in their specificity. Bowes is a true abstract expressionist. She remains fully immersed in her own stream of consciousness as it guides her brush in a direct route from her heart and mind. These abstract works tell many stories of family life, turning these realities into mystical and universal expressions.
H'Art of Ottawa http://www.hartofottawa.ca/
The trees are pushing their trunks. The trees are at the cottage and Bob says let the trees stay. The trees are listening and wondering what he is saying. Why is Bob telling us to stay still? Bob waters the trees. They are probably asleep. They start drinking. It’s going to rain, the wind is blowing. Just relax it’s just the trees. The fireplace burns out and everything is quiet. Chelsea sniffing the ground…. Chelsea is lifting her head and looking across the fence, moving her feet back and forth looking at all the flowers giving them lots of sniffs. She lies on the deck and looks around and stretches her feet out. She watches Bob cut the grass. Linda comes out with her watering can and gives the flowers a nice sprinkle. I’m digging away. I have my purple dress on. I smell the hot flowers. Chelsea lifts her head up. The flowers want to know what I’m doing. I say I’m watering the garden before the rain comes.
Bella Bowes’ work is as intuitive and fluid as her dance practice. She has many stories that – as the titles of the work suggest – are powerful in their specificity. Bowes is a true abstract expressionist. She remains fully immersed in her own stream of consciousness as it guides her brush in a direct route from her heart and mind. These abstract works tell many stories of family life, turning these realities into mystical and universal expressions.
H'Art of Ottawa http://www.hartofottawa.ca/