The Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-06-29, Page 15Serving over 25,000 homes in Listowel, Wingham, Mount Forest, Milverton, Elmira, Palmerston, Harri ,ton, Brussels, ,Atwood, Monkton, Millbank, Newton, Clifford, Wallenstein, Drayton, Moorefield and Arthur. Wednesday, June 29, 1983
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Cole Bowman
Painting as a professional for
24 years but never stops learning
Although he's been painting as a profes-
sional for 24 years, Elmira's resident artist
Cole Bowman says he never stops learning.
And -learning was the purpose of a tour he
recently took in Europe where he was able
to study some of the masters in some of the
largest collections in the world.
In Russia Mr. Bowman studied the
world's largest collection of Rembrandt's at
the Hermitage Museum then in Amsterdam
at the Rijksmuseum "where I spent most of
• my time" he studied Rembrandt again as
. well as Franz Hals and many other Dutch
• painters. He also toured the Van Gogh Mu-
seum and Rembrandt's studio.
Mr. Bowman described his tour as "just a
thrill". He went in a group of 21 all connect-
•Jx1 with the Kitchener -Waterloo Art Gallery
• either as artists or as board members. It
was a fast tour, only 18 days, but in that time
Mi. Bowman was able to savor his study of
the masters and also observe something of
' the life behind the barbed wire, towers and
machine guns of Russia.
While studying the work of artists he has
long admired, Mr. Bowman observed that
lighting seemed very important to the work.
He also studied technique and colors.
"I've come back with trying to improve
the objective style. My style has always
been realism - objectively. One has to learn
7Ao paint with softer colors yet project a
meaningful and moving creation of the arts.
You have to try to get all the depth and feel-
ing in facial expression by using softer
Between museums, Mr. Bowman also ob-
served a bit of local life. - •
, Visitors don't fly directly to Leningrad but
-itop outside Russia where the passenger
inust board another plan operated hy the
-Russian government.
Security getting in and out of the country
. 'was "rough" according to Mr. Bowman.
::i"Everything was checked - you had to
around my neck. You are not allowed to Like
any Russian money in or out of the country. .
The list is checked when you go back."
Yet for his entire visit, Mr. Bowman never
felt threatened or harassed in any, way ex-
cpet for one small incident on which he has
reflected more since his return to Canada.
When boarding the plane to enter Russia
he noticed two rung Russian girls and
mused they probably came from wealthy
families to afford plane fare. But the same
two girls were often seen by members of the
art gallery group - at the hotel, museums,
restaurants - they just seemed to turn up
wherever the group toured. The significance
didn't hit home however, until the group left
Russia .
by Kim Dadson
Althou 'not too many people leave Rus-
sia in t s manner, the group decided to
leave b train so they could see the country-
side. Before the train left guards pulled up
seats and even floorboards checking for
anyone who was trying to leave illegally.
There were one to two guards for every
coach with German shepherds. The same
two girls were on the train.
About one or two km passed the barbed
wire, towers, machine guns and spotlights,
the guards left the train with their dogs. So
did the two young girls.
"I had the feeling I was being watched -
everyone did," comments Mr. Bowman.
But it didn't spoil the tour. "I never felt in-
secure," says Mr. Bowman. "As an artist, it
was a perfect place to learn and to study the
masters."
He noticed the people were "friendly and
well dressed. The shops were adequate but
sparse - not overstocked." He did observe
one incongruity, however, for what he ex-
pected in a communist country. People were
either very rich or very poor; there was no ,
middle class. Everyone did not appear to re-;
ceive equally.
The young people love anything western.
They'll pay $100 for a pair of jeans. But if
you sold such anitem, you would have to
spend the money there, you can't take it out.
Night clubS play all American music. The
bird danOe and. YMCA were two popular
tunes plaYed at the night clubs.
The group left Leningrad for art galleries
in Finland, specifically the Gallen-Kallela
Museum, the home and studio of the artist of
the same name. They also visited the Cana-
dian ambassador A. W. J. Robertson. Fin-
land "is very much like MuSkoka" (where
In Stockholm, Sweden they toured the Mu-
seum of National Antiquities and the Royal
Palace. In Helsinger they visited the (Ham-
let) Elsinore Castle where Shakespeare got
his idea for the play Hamlet. In Stockholm
they were greeted by the Canadian ambas-
sador, Mr. A Couvrette.
In Amsterdam in the Netherlands they
stayed at the Pulitzer Hotel built in 1660, on
the same street where -Anne Frank hid dur-
ing World War II. It was "very moving" to
actually visit where the Frank family lived
behind the bookcase.
Mr. Bowman found it was expensive to
live in Denmark, Sweden or Finland. "Be-
cause of the socialist way they live, so many
things are paid by the government."
"They pay 50 per cent income tax. So
many live together instead of getting mar-
ried because of the government taxes. They
get married after they have children when
the tax'system changes."
In Denmark, for instance, a good meal
that would cost $15 here is $35 plus there in
Canadian dollars.
The last time Mr. Bowman visited Am-
sterdam everything was covered by snow
and the country looked clean. He was sur-
prised to discover it "was not as clean as I
expected".
"Half the people are spaced out on drugs.
The Dutch people themselves are clean.
Many are moving out of the cities to the
country. One-sixth of the population is
foreigners."
Mr. Bowman is a versatile artist. He
paints everything, character faces. land-
scapes, still life. His paintings of Mennonite
life his own heritage, are popular in the El-
mira area. He sells his work right across the
country, has shipped work to England and
knows that his work has travelled home with
visitors all over the world.
Of his recent tour, he says, "It will take
me from three to six months before I can get
into it. It'll take a lot of reflecting and con-
templating first."
He has a studio in downtown Elmira
where he usually paints for three hours in
the morning and again for three to four
hours in the afternoon. "And lots of eve-
nings, too, because I like it."
He considers himself to still be a struggl-
ing and learning artist although through the
years he has built a reputation with his
work. And it is work; as the artist 'Says, "I
think the whole thing is 99 per cent perspira-
tion and one per cent inspiration."
It is work he wants to do and enjoys and
although his paintings have supported a
family, hobbies that include golf ( "I'm a
golf nut") and a classic red sports car, he is
cautious with his comments and doesn't Pre-
- tend to be anyone but someone who works
for a living: "Anyone could do it if they did it
as often as I do," he claims.
He laughs a bit self consciously when the
stereotyped picture of the starving artist is
brought to mind but adds to his comment
about perspiration. In interviews people
who have "made it" in their chosen careers
often say there was a lot of hard work prior
to the success. "I can relate to that com-
ment," Mr. Bowman says.
It took not only hard work,but determina-
tion and a bit of risk when he first opened up
a studio to paint full-time after he had been
employed in the area as a sign painter. The
transition from sign painter to renowned
artist has taken 24 years and as evidenced
by the recent educational tour to study the
masters, is still taking place.
After a tour to study the masters, Elmira artist Co/e Bowman
says it will be three to six months of reflecting and con-
templating before anything he learned will appear on canvas