ABOUT

Rowan Bathurst (b. 1995 Baltimore, MD) lives and works between Baltimore, MD and São Paulo, Brazil. Primarily focusing on portraiture of the female body, she paints from her own photographs of close friends while incorporating elements and familiar landscapes from her time living in rural Brazil and backpacking through the continents. 

Beyond her latest exhibition, Bathurst’s recent work focuses on creating a dialogue between present day women and prehistoric artifacts, particularly venus figurines and ceramic antiquities. 

Inspired by these archeological pieces, feminist history, and our instinctive connection to the earth, the paintings radiate warmth, sisterhood and a profound, innate bond that we share with our lineage. The work offers a different perspective when observing women in art, one that emanates tranquility and confidence while maintaining vulnerability. Mysticism and primitivity are a part of every human; her paintings invite the viewer to discover and praise that history we carry within us.

Bathurst earned her BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2018. Her work has been collected and exhibited locally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. She was nominated as a participating artist for The Rema Hort Mann Foundation in 2022. Alongside her studio practice, she participates in mural work internationally.