SPOTLIGHT

An interview with Sir Frank Bowling RA

In this exclusive interview, we find out about the career of leading contemporary abstract painter, Sir Frank Bowling RA.

Discover Bowling’s early ambitions to be a poet, his reflections on his journey into abstraction while living in New York in the 1960s, and how at 92 years old, he still finds happiness in his daily studio practice.

INTERVIEW

‘When I was writing poetry, both in Guyana and London, I was writing about experience - my experience or the human experience. [...] And today, my work is entirely abstract, but perhaps there are stories hidden among the titles.’

INTERVIEW

‘When I was in New York, I noticed the way the shadows in my studio moved across the floor and canvases, especially if I held up the map stencils, which I was fascinated by.’