Series
Figures
Figure studies & portraits.
Palimpsest
On a brisk February night in 1999 a live 1,250 pound bull was visited upon the grunt Gallery.
A cave painting was projected onto the bull and the smooth, angular gallery walls. Ancient myths and stories were re-told. We talked about bison, bulls, and palimpsests (and nature & culture).
The thing I remember the most from that evening was the presence of the enormous bull and the respectful hush of the audience. Here we all were, crammed into this small gallery with a massive unpredictable creature, and a shared a sense of reverence.
Capitals and Columns
This series was provoked by fantastic scenes of wrecked car mountains spilling into a river which was lined with log booms – old growth forests – half buried in the intertidal mud.
![3 Graces (Jaggy in the Middle)](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/3-Graces-Jaggy-in-the-middle-4-x-5-x-11-2-bronze-scaled.jpg)
![Apparatus for Divining Capital](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AfDCMunich2017.jpg)
![Branded, Logo’d & Art’d](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Branded-Logod-Artd-Windshield-13-x-21-2020-scaled.jpg)
![Branded, Logo’d & Art’d /JJ&A](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/BrandedLogod-Artd-oil-on-canvas-56-x-84-2017.jpg)
![Branded, Logo’d & Art’d study](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Branded-Logod-Artd-study-oil-on-mylar-22-x-3322-2014-copy-scaled.jpg)
![Capital variation, with yellow, green & red](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/P1170634-copy-2.jpg)
![Das Capital / Sundial Gnomon](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Das-Cap-Iron-Stand-detail3-scaled.jpg)
![Eve’s Ride](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/P1340045.jpg)
![Frank the Curator explaining Theory to Pigeons](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Curator-explaining-Theory-to-Pigeons-acrylic-polymer-25-11-x-9-2021-scaled.jpg)
![Freelancers & Sessionals](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Freelancers-Sessionals-practicing-climbing-skills-during-a-Team-Building-Workshop-graphite-on-paper-10-x-1322-2021-scaled.jpg)
![Humvee Ikebana](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Humvee-Ikebana-bronze-13x9x7-2011.jpg)
![Ionic Cadillac](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Ionic-Cadillac-CeramicAcrylic-Polymer-25-high-2017-1-scaled.jpg)
![Ionic Cadillac & Dancers](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Ionic-Cadillac-Dancers-ceramic-bronze-14-x10x10-2015-scaled.jpg)
![Lost Lagoon Reflection](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Lost-Lagoon-Reflection-Oil-on-panel-3722-x-4922-1992.jpg)
![Raku Bugs](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Raku-Bugs-ceramic-11-x-8x3.5-2018-scaled.jpg)
![Sessionals & Freelancers Practicing Climbing Skills During a Team Building Work Shop](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/03-Sessionals-Freelancers-practicing-Climbing-Skills-during-a-Team-Building-Work-Shop-acrylic-polymer-3722-high-2021-scaled.jpg)
![Stacked Car Sundial / Lost Lagoon](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Stacked-Car-Sundial_charcoal-on-paper_22x30_1985.jpg)
![Stacked Car Sundial Bird Bath / work in progress](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/4.-2022CelestialReflectionPondBirdbath-6622-diameter_work-in-progress.jpg)
![Stacked Car Sundial proposal / 1985](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1985SCSundialProposalGroundview8.5x12-copy.jpg)
![Stacked Cars](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Stacked-Cars-charcoal-on-paper-22x30-1983-.jpg)
![Sundial Bird Bath proposal / drawing](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2022CelestialReflectionPondBirdbath31x4222-graphiteDraw.jpg)
![Tesla Stack](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Tesla-Stack-charcoal-on-paper-22x30-2022-scaled.jpg)
![Tonal study / Apparat](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Apparatus-for-Divination-of-Capital-concept-drawing-22-x-30-2017-scaled.jpg)
![Trans Am Totem](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Trans-Am-Totem-2015-Robert-Earnest-1024x683-1.jpg)
![Trans Am Totem White on Black](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Trans-Am-Totem-White-on-Black-scaled.jpg)
![Viaduct & TAT proposal](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/P1250664-scaled.jpg)
![Where the Buffalo Roam](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Where-the-Buffalo-Roam-charcoal-on-paper-22x30-1985.jpg)
The River
I started working on Coastal & River boats when I was twenty-five and was done with them by my forty-forth birthday. I spent a lot of time in the North Arm of the Fraser and witnessed a lot of changes to the natural environment due to industrialization.
![Booming Ground Reflection](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Booming-Grnd-Reflection-oil-on-canvas-36-x36-2009--scaled.jpg)
![Booming Grounds Low Tide](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Booming-Grounds-Low-Tide-oil-on-wood-12-x-36-2007--scaled.jpg)
![Empty Grounds, North Arm](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/North-Arm-Old-Grounds-oil-on-canvas-42-x-3322-9922-triptych2009-copy.jpg)
![Entrance on an Ebb](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Entrance-on-an-Ebb-oil-on-canvas-20-x-60-2007-scaled.jpg)
![Floating World](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Floating-World-oil-on-canvas-24-x-68-2008-scaled.jpg)
![Floating World in Red](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Floating-World-in-Red-oil-on-canvas-28-x-7022-2007-copy.jpg)
![Mamalilikulla Cut Block Bundles](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Mamalilaculla-Cut-Block-Bundles-oil-on-canvas-25x68-2008-scaled.jpg)
![North Arm / 6 sections](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/scan-drawing1006-scaled.jpg)
![North Arm November](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/North-Arm-November-oil-on-wood-15-x-6022-2007-copy-scaled.jpg)
![October Windtak](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/October-Wind-Tak.jpg)
![Raw Export](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Raw-Export-oil-on-canvas-40-x-5022-2007-copy.jpeg)
![Seven Alley](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Seven-Alley-oil-on-canvas-22-x-60-2009-1.jpg)
![Silver & Gold](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Silver-goldoil-metal-leaf-on-canvas-42-dia-tondo-2019-copy-scaled.jpg)
![The Flats ebb tide reflection](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Flats-Ebb-Tide-Reflection-oil-on-canvas-24-x-3622-2006-copy.jpg)
![The Midas Touch](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/The-Midas-Touch.jpeg)
![West of Musqueam and South of the University](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2010WestOf-Musqueam_EvergreenInstallation_32wide.jpg)
Combines
This series began after we completed the stacked car capital for Trans Am Totem in 2015.
It started with a few oil on canvas paintings suggesting a salt water ocean in relation to a turbid rip tide. I wanted change the subject from nature in state of flux to nature altered by humans. So, I traded my stretched canvas supports for car hoods, refrigerators and dryer doors.
Bush Dynasty & Co.
I began experimenting with ceramics while teaching drawing and painting at Capilano University. The ceramics instructor, Sam Kwan, was expert in glaze technology and he helped me experiment with a range of different glazes. A green celedon glaze was my favourite.
Around that time the USA had recently invaded Iraq (on the rationale of a lie), hence the name of this series of work. These ceramic pieces led to other 2 & 3D work.
Ships
“Now you ask “What’s this romantic boy
Who laments what’s done and gone?”
There was no romance on a cold winter ocean and the gale sang an awful song”
– Lyric from Fisherman’s Wharf by Stan Rogers
This lyric conjures a laugh about an Art World Chorus I’ve heard chanting “painting is done and gone” … and I confess to singing Sea Shanties and painting pictures of ships.
![Against a Desert Sky](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Against-a-Desert-Sky-2001-32-x-72-oil-on-canvas-scaled.jpeg)
![Ambient Reflection](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Ambient-Reflection-oil-on-wood-12-x-48-2009-scaled.jpg)
![Axe](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/18.Axe_-1024x763-1.jpg)
![Blue Anchorage](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Blue-Anchorage-oil-on-canvas-12-x-72-2007--scaled.jpg)
![Blue Sky Smilin’ (Study)](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Blue-Sky-Smilin-Study-oil-on-canvas-24x722008-1-scaled.jpg)
![Container](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Container-oil-on-wood-12-x-36-2006.jpg)
![Containers](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Containers-oil-on-canvas-16-x-48-Triptych-2010.jpg)
![Drilling the Beaufort](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Drilling-the-Beaufort_oil-on-wood38x662009.jpg)
![Ebb Tide](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/EbbTide-Black-Hull-oil-on-canvas-48x72-2018-scaled.jpg)
![English Bay Crude](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Englsh-Bay-Crude-oil-on-canvas-24-x-36.jpg)
![February Nightfall](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/February-Nightfall-oil-on-panel-12-x-15-2016.jpg)
![Green Anchorage Study](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Green-Anchorage-Study-42-x-42-oil-on-Canvas-1024x1012-1.jpg)
![Haida Proctor](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Haida-Proctor-oil-on-c-48-x-72-2017-scaled.jpg)
![Horizon](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Horizon-15.5-x-60-Oil-on-Wood.jpg)
![In Between](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/In-Between-oil-on-canvas-40-x-42-2019-scaled.jpg)
![Lee’s](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Lees-oil-on-canvas-40-x-60-2016--scaled.jpg)
![Lotus Eater](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Lotus-Eater-18-x-60-Oil-on-Wood-scaled.jpg)
![Low Tide](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Low-Tide-oil-on-canvas-36-x-72-triptych-2020--scaled.jpg)
![Low Whistle](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Low-Whistle-oil-on-canvas-24-x-36-2020.jpg)
![Mimesis](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Mimesis-oil-on-canvas-20-x-72-triptych-2020--scaled.jpg)
![Mirror](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Mirror-oil-on-canvas-42-x-60-diptych-2019--scaled.jpg)
![Nick’s Big Blue](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Nicks-Big-Blue-oil-on-canvas-42-x-60-2013-scaled.jpg)
![Patronus & the Nature Lover](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Patronus-300dpi-copy.jpg)
![The Daedalus](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/The-Daedalus-oil-on-canvas-60-x-70-2018-scaled.jpg)
![Three In Anchorage](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Three-In-Anchorage-oil-on-canvas30x30-2017.jpg)
![Upon A Rising Tide](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Upon-A-Rising-Tide-oil-on-canvas-48x80-2009-scaled.jpg)
![Winter Drift](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Winter-Drift-oil-on-canvas-24x36-2017.jpg)
Cruising Arcadia
This is a collection of landscape paintings in a prototypical suburban setting: a parking lot. The mobile ‘homes‘ frame nature. Outside in and inside out.
Landmarks
Most of these paintings are landscapes containing human made objects and architecture.
Water Surfaces
![A Painting for the Blind/Yellow Sky Lament](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/A-Painting-for-the-Blind-Yellow-Sky-Lament.jpg)
![A Salish Sea study](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/P1340715-scaled.jpeg)
![Blue Shadow](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Blue-Shadow-48-x-68-1986-Oil-on-Canvas.jpg)
![Blue Wake](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Blue-Wake-20-x-6022-scaled.jpeg)
![Britta / Wake](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Britta-Wakejpg-scaled.jpg)
![Burning Boat](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Burning-Boat-oil-on-canvas-16-x-4822-2005-copy.jpg)
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![Dark Sea](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Dark-Sea-3022x6022oil-on-C2020.jpg)
![Ebb Tide Reflection](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Ebb-Tide-Reflection-2006-30-x-60-oil-on-canvas-scaled.jpg)
![From the Inside](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/From-the-Inside-1988-48-x-67.5-oil-on-canvas-copy.jpg)
![Gray Wake](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Gray-Shift-18-x-60-Oil-on-Canvas.jpg)
![Jetty](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/jetty-oil-on-canvas-30-x-60-2006-scaled.jpg)
![Night Shift Commute / River Dream](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Nightshift-Dream-oil-on-canvas-3022-x-6022-copy.jpg)
![Red Day Wake](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Red-Day-Wake.jpg)
![Red on Green](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Red-on-Green30-x-6022-diptych-oil-on-canvas-2017.jpg)
![Shift #6](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Shift-6-32-x-60-Oil-on-Canvas-scaled.jpg)
![Shift in Blue & Green](https://www.marcusbowcott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Shift-in-B-and-G-28-x-60-2014.jpg)