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 Jonathon
Earl Bowser, a Canadian artist of English,
Scottish, French, and Chippewa Indian
ancestry, was born in 1962. He began
drawing obsessively at age 8, painting at
age 18, and graduated on the President's
Honor Roll from the Alberta College of Art
in 1984. His limited-edition prints and
collector's plates are now represented by
many galleries internationally, and his
original paintings are in public and
private collections across North America,
Europe, and Asia - including the
government collections of China and
Taiwan. The artist's extensive and
informative web-site receives over
1,000,000 visitors a year. Jonathon
describes his unique figurative-landscape
paintings as "Mythic Naturalism"
- reverential images of the unseen,
Vivifying Spirit of the natural world. Of
his work he says:
"However
much our ambitious scientific endeavor
discovers about the superficial appearance
of the world (The Way Things Work), at the
fundamental level, of the elementary
particles and primary forces of nature,
the universe remains as irreducibly
inscrutable as it was to stone-age hunters.
Nature invites our advances with rewards
of Power, but when we try to apprehend the
most basic aspects of reality (to see the
perfect Beauty behind the veil), She
demurs, vanishing into an ethereal chimera
of mathematics - whatever that is. The
cosmos issued from some nameless, tranquil
depth beyond the brutal ephemera of space
and time; we are connected still, by an
umbilical cord of causality, to that
awesome beckoning void of eternal
perfection.
"These
images are looking for the Mysterious
Beauty beyond the superficial appearance
of the world, seeking new revelations of a
simple truth: the Mystery of Nature and
the Cosmos, and the Mystery of the
Feminine, are the same..."
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