Sian Bowen

Siân Bowen is an artist whose primary medium is drawing, in the broadest definition of that term. Her recent work has been influenced by a residency at The V & A, it has an intimacy and immediacy that is often enhanced by using papers which have a history. During the residency, she has made pieces incorporating fragments cut from 19th-century Florentine letters and documents and has drawn on wallpaper retrieved from a redundant lighthouse.

She has also been influenced by her time living and working in Japan; a return visit in spring 2006 allowed her to carry out in-depth research into age-old but now vanishing treatments of paper such as oiling, smoking and dyeing.