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Elen Bowers is a UK-based artist and illustrator whose intricate, nature-led drawings and photography explore our connection to the landscape. Rooted in close observation and touched by folklore, her work looks closely at the places where the familiar and otherworldly meet.

Art

'After the rain', 2026

'Midmorning', 2026

'The walk to St Nicholas', 2026

'The Golden Man', 2026

'The Whirlpool at Pendeen', 2026

'Procession at Midsummer', 2026

'Light the Way', 2025

'Wheal Coates', 2025

'Waiting', 2026

Photography

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A fish scale sky over the fields today 🐟

#ukcountryside #ruralphotography #countryside

'Between', 2026

#countryside #rurallife #contemporaryart

There was a chill in the air for the first time in months today. It's left me feeling ready for the start of cosy season

#septembervibes #countryside #ruralphotography

'An afternoon in Portreath'

An illustration to remember a happy afternoon spent in the rock pools with my eldest boy in Cornwall this summer 🌞

A collection of images inspiring some of my current illustrations. What are your favourites?

Photo credits:

1. Round bales by Colin Watts
2. Bales from above by Bernd Dittrich
3. Waiting the harvest by Slava Auchynnikau 
4. Fields from above

'Caterpillar's New Shoes'

My eldest son’s class has been looking after caterpillars this year (so cute!). It’s led to lots of bug-related conversations and drawings around our dinner table.

I’m very much in my bug-illustration er

Combine harvesters, hay bales and stubble fields normally mark the start of early autumn - I'm not ready for these views! Give me more summer first 🌞

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