About the Artist

David T. Bowyer was born in 1950 and grew up in Birmingham, where he was educated at King Edwards School, Birmingham and Bourneville School of Art and Crafts, followed by his Diploma in Art & Design at Ravensbourne College Of Art And Design, working principally in the Fine Art Department Print Room, with post-graduate studies at Manchester Polytechnic.  In 1974 he took up residence in Blackheath, South East London, where he still lives, with his wife and family.

Printmaking has been a life long obsession in all its various forms.  In 1985 he was elected to membership of Greenwich Printmakers Association, an artist’s cooperative running our own permanent gallery centrally located in the town centre.  He joined Southbank Printmakers, a similarly cooperative enterprise, in 2007, and has work in permanent stock in galleries across the UK.  His limited edition colour etchings are complemented by works on paper in watercolour and drawing media, forming parallel bodies of work.

Like many artists, economic  circumstances have on occasion kept him from the studio, in favour of education in secondary schools, plugging the gaps in the system as a supply teacher and working with adult learners in local authority evening classes and independently-run residential courses.