Anthony Bowes is an award winning representational artist from Chesterfield, Virginia. Born in 1999, he grew up with a healthy appreciation for the outdoors; spending a great deal of his childhood in the woods and creeks of his neighborhood. He took an interest in drawing from a young age and started to learn from his grandmother who was an art professor at Liberty University. Bowes attributes much of his love for painting to the influence and support of his late grandmother. He would later go on to say, “She became my first and most influential teacher. She would always encourage me, and saw potential in me that I couldn’t see in myself.”

     Bowes began to take his artistic ability much more seriously in 2017, after donating a portrait painting of a fallen state trooper to the officers family. “Their reaction to my painting, changed my life forever,” he said. “It was this painting, and how I saw it effect a family in such a positive way, that led me to truly believe in myself and my art.” This experience shortly followed by his first solo art exhibit, began the official start of Bowes’ art career at the age of 17. 

     Bowes’ subject matter is predominantly landscapes with the exception of occasional portrait commissions. He works mainly in Oil paints, but enjoys experimenting in Gouache and Charcoal. His work varies in size ranging from a few square inches to 4x5 foot paintings. 

     Bowes’ personal inspirations come largely from the Blue Ridge Mountains. He says that, “their timeless beauty and constant change of light and atmosphere is like watching a grand drama unfold.” He says, “ I try to capture the very essence of these qualities while drawing attention to the beauty of God’s creation.”