Constance Bowden

Constance Bowden is the owner of Manchester Studios RVA, a classical realism workshop center dedicated to bringing the finest realist artists in the world today to teach drawing, painting, and sculpture under ideal circumstances. She studied figurative sculpture at the Florence Academy of Art under director Robert Bodem, Mitch Shea, Eudald de Juana Gorriz, Eran Webber, Charlier Mostow and Stephen Perkins.  She began her studies there in 2015, following 25 years as a portrait painter and bronze figurative sculptor.  In addition to her training at the Florence Acadmey of Art, Mrs. Bowden graduated from the College of William and Mary with the Highest Honors in Sculpture.  She advanced her skills through a three-year apprencticeship in violin making with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, followed by five years studying bronze casting at the Johnson Atelier Institute of Sculpture Technology. She has studied painting with Cedric and Joanette Egeli, Dawn Whitelaw, Paula Frisbee, Raymond Everett Kinstler, Jessica Artman, Angela Cunningham, Cornelia Hernes and Simone Mortiz.  Her paintings and sculptures are represented in homes and institutions throughout Virginia and beyond.

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