Scottish-born Celia Bowers has had a lifelong interest in art, beginning as a child in Glasgow, spanning her education in Philosophy and Psychology in London and at Harvard, and her career as an antiques dealer. Only in the past twelve years has she turned to producing her own works, after studying oil painting at the Community School of Music and Art.
“At first I concentrated mainly on traditional plein-air landscapes and still life paintings, but in 2010, after discovering the extraordinary clarity and range of color and form in the pre-dawn sky, especially in fall and winter, I began the Aurora Series, which I continue to work on today. In these paintings I try to capture that clarity, not photographically, but by abstracting the essence of the sky’s light in the short period of time before the sun rises over the horizon.”
We invite you to come view selections from the Aurora Series and other works by Celia currently on display in the reading room at the library.