Druie Bowett

Druie Bowett (1924–1998) was an English artist who was a member of The Midland Group and Women's International Art Club, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Life and career Born Drucilla Glover in Ripon, North Yorkshire in 1924, Bowett attended the Queen Margaret's School, York before studying at the Harrogate School of Art under John Cooper, a pupil of Walter Sickert. She became a close friend of Hungarian artist Jean-Georges Simon during her time at Harrogate, and later worked alongside notable artists such as Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Terry Frost and Prunella Clough. Bowett's paintings in her 1995 exhibition, 'Given Space', at the Cartwright Hall, Bradford, were described as having shown her to be 'a painter at the height of her powers...[showing] bravura displays of colour, light and form, about sensations of space, nearness and distance'.

Bowett exhibited consistently over five decades, with exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Paris Salon, the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.