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Paul Edmund Norman's Monthly Online Literary Magazine ~ July 2005 Issue No. 81
GATEWAY GALLERIES: OWEN OWEN
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About Owen Owen:
Born in Reading, England, Owen was educated at the Beckenham and Penge County School for Boys and the King’s School, Ottery St Mary, Devon. In 1937, at the age of eleven, he was awarded a scholarship to the Beckenham School of Art, London, the youngest pupil to receive this scholarship. In 1949 he settled in South Africa where he developed his individualistic style, both as a landscape artist, portraying the loneliness and expanse of the Karoo and Northern Cape, and later in the field of wildlife. In 1981 he was invited by the Everard Read Gallery together with the Tyron Gallery, London, to participate in an international bird artist exhibition. Because of the cumulative effects of injuries received during the Second World War, when he served as a glider pilot with the Sixth Airborne Division, he was finally retired from his position as Head Office secretary of a large building society, in 1983. This enabled him to devote himself to art on a full time basis. He has worked in virtually every media and now confines himself to acrylics, gouache and pastels. He has taken part in a one-man exhibition at the Lister Art Gallery in Johannesburg, and many group exhibitions. His work is represented in numerous collections both in the Republic of South Africa and overseas. He now lives in England with his wife Phyllis, author of several children’s books. They have two daughters, a son, six grandchildren and recently a great grandson. Reproductions of his work have appeared in several calendars and wild life publications, including the Directors’ Collection. His name is included in a publication entitled ‘Dictionary of South African Artists’.