Information provided by the Artist: My very first outing after I was born was the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento! Growing up with a father (Mark Bowles) and grandmother as artists, I guess you can say I was destined to be interested in art in some form. Growing up watching my dad paint his heart out on large canvases day in and day out and dressing up and going to his art openings on Saturday nights showed me what real passion was. I had always been into drawing, ceramics, and photography in my youth, but it wasn’t until I was an adult living on my own that I started painting which became so therapeutic to me and became my escape from the world. A lot of my painting is spontaneous, whatever comes through at that moment in time, any memory of a place I had traveled to, or feeling.