Eric Bowman

Eric Bowman was born in Pasadena and grew up in Orange County, California where he was always the class artist throughout his elementary and high school years. Early on, various art-related jobs such as silk screen T-shirt printer or surfboard airbrush artist led to a lengthy and successful career as a commercial illustrator, eventually transitioning to fine art painting.

As a painter, Eric has exhibited in national & regional exhibitions in galleries and museums across the country, including the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Oklahoma City, OK; the Autry Museum, Los Angeles, CA; the Briscoe Museum, San Antonio, TX; the Couse-Sharp Historical Museum, Taos, NM; the Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN; the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK; the Kaiping Art Museum, China; the Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD; the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles and the Salmagundi Club, NYC.  His paintings are in private and corporate collections throughout the U.S. as well as England, China, Australia, Canada, Mexico and the West Indies.

Eric's work has also been showcased in feature articles with Western Art & Architecture,  Art Of The West,  Practique Des Arts (France),  Southwest Art,  International Artist,  Fine Art Connoisseur,  Plein Air and Western Art Collector magazines. He is a Signature Member of the California Art Club, and former Signature member of the American Impressionist Society and the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association. Eric resides in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and daughter.