About Dana Cowie

Born in 1975, Dana Cowie grew up in Hamilton, Ontario in Canada before enrolling in the visual art program at Central Technical School in Toronto in the 90’s. She has also lived in Japan and Victoria, British Columbia. Her work has been exhibited in nurmerous solo and group shows across Canada, in the U.S. and England. She is represented by art galleries in Canada and England and is collected world wide. Dana’s paintings have been featured in magazines as well, including Style at Home Magazine, House & Garden magazine (UK) and Escarpment Magazine. She lives in Owen Sound, Ontario with her family.

Using an impasto, painterly technique in oil I create cubist farm landscapes. I live in the country and am surrounded by beautiful barns and rolling hills. My work is a culmination of years of painting in search of a patchwork quilt effect using thick, expressionist marks. Barns and farmland speaks to me as I live in a rural setting and have good friendships with local farmers.

Using classical oils and painting on my grandmothers 1940’s easel, I work instantaneously across my canvas, creating layers of colour that overlap as the image emerges through a grid technique that I’ve developed over years of my practice. The image emerges as both abstract and representational.

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions:

Breakthrough Artists of the Affordable Art Scene, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, December 12, 2022 – January 29, 2023 – Opening: Monday 12th of December 2022 4PM – 6PM

New Collections Exhibit, Kellie Miller Arts, March 2022
New York Affordable Art Fair, Spring,  March 23, 2022 – March 27, 2022, Artspace Warehouse
The Framework of Texture   March 6, 2022 – April 2, 2022, Artspace Warehouse, LA

AGH Art Sale, Art Gallery of Hamilton, April 28 – May 1, 2022
Westland Gallery, Dana Cowie and Marcy Saddy, June 28th to July 16
Ojibway Club Art  Show, August, 2022

Representation:

Canvas Gallery, Toronto, Ontario  2009 – present
Artspace Warehouse, LA, 2021 – present

Galerie Bloom, Montreal, Quebec,  July 2021- present

Kellie Miller Arts, Brighton UK Feb. 2020 – present
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario 2009 – present

Exhibition History:

The Bigger Picture: Art in Hamilton 1950-2000, September 10 – December 31, 2022
AGH Art Sale, April, 2022
Westland Gallery, Dusk and Dawn, Jan 11 – Jan 29, 2022

Dockside Gallery, Miniature Painting Show, 2020

Kellie Miller Arts, 2 group exhibitions 2020

Art Gallery of Hamilton AGH Art Sale 2009, 2019, 2020, 2021

Westland Gallery, Various group shows 2018- present

Carnegie Gallery, Dundas Canada 2000 and 2018

Ojibway Art Show, Point-Au Peril, Canada August 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound Canada 2018, 2021

West Hamilton Artist’s Tour, 2016 and 2017, Hamilton Canada

Gallery ArtPlus Belleville, Canada 2007 – 2009

Whipersnapper Gallery group show, Toronto 2007

Labspace Gallery, Toronto, 2007

Spin Gallery, Toronto, 2007

The Great Hall Gallery, Toronto group show in 1995 and solo show, 2008