Celebrating Frank Bowling’s Bold and Colorful Career

London’s Tate Britain is celebrating Guyana-born British artist Frank Bowling. The museum presents an opportunity to experience the entirety of Bowling’s 60-year career. It showcases his sensual use of color and bold experimentation.

At 19 years old, Bowling moved to London. He went on to study painting at the Royal College of Art alongside David Hockney and R.B. Kitaj. After graduating with a silver medal, he spent the next 60 years criss-crossing the Atlantic between studios in London and New York. Maturing into a master of his medium, he developed a visionary approach that fuses abstraction with personal memories. Now at 85, he still paints every day, experimenting with new materials and techniques.

The exhibition brings together a lifetime of large-scale artworks. It includes key series such as the iconic 'map paintings', the visually arresting ‘poured paintings’ made by pouring paint down an inclined surface, and the sculptural paintings of the 1980s evoking riverbeds, all the way to mature work selected from a recent period of explosive productivity.​ Bowling's art is on display now through August 26.