Frank Bowling a practising artist for time now in excess of four decades was born in Guyana South America on February 29, 1936. He moved to England in 1950 and there completed his high school education. Bowling's career ambitions upon demobilization from the Royal Air Force in satisfaction of his National Service obligations were as a poet and writer. But these were subsumed in a call to art and he subsequently received his entire art education and training in various English art institutions. Bowling won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art; London in 1959 and on graduation in 1962 was awarded the Silver Medal in Painting and a traveling scholarship to South America and the Caribbean.
An occasional sculptor, Bowling began his career as a figurative painter. His paintings of the late1950s through the early 1960s, executed in oils mainly in earthy pigments infused with miscellaneous extraneous materials, evidenced distinctly social and political narratives (...)
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