Galleries / Exhibitions
Lara Bowen Contemporary
AAF Battersea & Hampstead 2020 - 2025
Petersfield Museum & Art Gallery
South Downs Open 2025
Art For Everyone 2025
Modern Makers - Contemporary Crafts 2024
Wave 2024
Summer Exhibition 2023
The Art Buyer
Winter Show 2023
Spring Exhibition and Cotswold Exhibitions 2023
Winter Show 2022
Surface Edge Shadow Exhibition 2022
Winfield Gallery, California, USA
Find/Make Exhibition 2021
Selene Exhibition 2020
Arc Angle, Plane, Form Exhibition 2019
Alice Kettle ‘More Threads’ Exhibition 2017
About Me

Born in Dorset, I moved to London as a teenager, but after 11 years, I followed my heart back to the countryside. I've been based in West Sussex for the past 30 years, where the surrounding nature... rolling downs, ancient trees, sea-worn pebbles and driftwood, deeply inspires my work.
I often refer to this as design by nature, and I remain a keen student.
My sculpture is rooted in a purity and simplicity of form and finish but above all, I create tactile, sensual objects that invite touch.
I primarily carve in wood using a process called direct carving, responding intuitively to the material without a fixed outcome in mind. I love working with reclaimed or found wood, enhancing the inherent qualities, grain, knots, cracks or manmade features from a previous life ... celebrating their so-called imperfections while shaping them into effortless, desirable forms.
Before becoming a full-time sculptor, I worked as a creative consultant, designing abstract site-specific installations internationally. Alongside that work, I studied sculpture part-time at Heatherley's School of Fine Art in London
This background in large-scale installation art continues to inform my sculpture. The lateral thinking I developed through years of designing site-specific pieces for museums, hotels, restaurants and retail environments inspires me to reimagine some of my carvings as limited edition casts.
I enjoy revisiting selected forms ... exploring how changes in scale, orientation, material, colour and translucency change their presence. Each piece is hand-cast and finished, so even within a limited edition, every piece has its own unique character
This fusion of design craftsmanship and problem solving continues to shape my practice ... fueling my passion for working across materials and scales and finding fresh ways to bring forms to life
I've extended this approach into Art With Purpose, a small collection of handmade, limited edition objects for the home. Co-created with my sister, this project focuses on thoughtful material combinations and functional tactile beauty ... each piece is made either by me or in collaboration with fellow artisan makers