| 1924 |
Born Ripon, Yorkshire |
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| 1940 |
Harrogate School of Art, studied under John Cooper,
a pupil of Sickert. Early work drawn from the Antique,
life drawing and industrial and pastoral landscape. Purchases
small drawing by L. S. Lowry at summer fayre |
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| 1942 |
Start of lifelong friendship with the Hungarian painter
Jean-Georges Simon, who opens her eyes to European abstraction,
with its bright colours and formal discipline |
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| 1943 |
Marriage to John Bowett, a veterinary surgeon |
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| Late 40s |
Makes contact with the Midland Group and becomes an
active member, involving herself with artists such as
Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Terry Frost and Prunella
Clough. Starts enduring friendship with the founder of
the group, Evelyn Gibbs |
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| Early 1950s |
Starts to hone her style towards the abstraction |
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| 1957 |
First solo exhibition at the Midland Group Gallery,
Nottingham; subsequent solo exhibitions at the gallery
1961, 1963 and 1969 |
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| 1958 |
Duke of Edinburgh purchases Renishaw Iron Works |
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| 60s |
Solo exhibitions at Austen Hayes, York; Cooper Gallery,
Barnsley; Wakefield City Art Gallery; Sheffield University;
North Eastern Association for the Arts; Art in Yorkshire;
Abbot Hall, Kendal; Nottingham Playhouse |
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| 70s |
Solo exhibitions at Vaccarino Arte Contemporanea,
Florence; 359 Gallery, Nottingham |
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| 80s |
Solo exhibitions at Drian Gallery, London; Crane Kalman,
London |
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| 1992 |
Death of John Bowett; 'Touching' and 'Almost Touching'
series |
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| 1993 |
Sandra Blow talks about Bowett's paintings in RA
Magazine |
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| 1995 |
Solo exhibition at Cartwright Hall, Bradford |
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| 1996 |
Solo exhibition of new work at Angel Row Gallery;
retrospective solo exhibition at Gallery 58 (now Bend
in the River), Gainsborough |
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| 1998 |
Druie Bowett dies aged 82 |
