Celeste Bowles
'Experimentation is art in itself."
Movement of Water
2019
Painting - Mixed Media
Regional Gold Medal - VASE 2019
State Finalist - VASE 2019
Silver Key Recipient - Scholastic Art and Writing 2019
"Small brush strokes worked in to create the ripples of water and transparency to see the swimmer moving through the water. This piece was made to celebrate the family I’ve created with my swim team. Not to mention the models are strong women I’ve looked up to my entire time i high school."
2019
Painting - Mixed Media
Regional Gold Medal - VASE 2019
State Finalist - VASE 2019
Silver Key Recipient - Scholastic Art and Writing 2019
"Small brush strokes worked in to create the ripples of water and transparency to see the swimmer moving through the water. This piece was made to celebrate the family I’ve created with my swim team. Not to mention the models are strong women I’ve looked up to my entire time i high school."
Floating There
2020
Painting - Mixed Media
Regional Gold Medal - VASE 2020
National Finalist - Celebrating Art 2020
"Meant to make the viewer as calm as the girl in the painting. This is to symbolize how water creates a sense of relief from stress. The girl floats with a clear and relaxed mind. . . .As if the person in the water is in a sensory deprivation tank. Which I've done research about ... a person would enter a pod filled with salt water, naked or clothed, floating completely in darkness usually no sound. Many hallucinate with the lack of sight and sound. (Hints the burst of color surrounding the girl in the water.) Most enter the tank with the intentions of clearing the mind as a form of meditation."
2020
Painting - Mixed Media
Regional Gold Medal - VASE 2020
National Finalist - Celebrating Art 2020
"Meant to make the viewer as calm as the girl in the painting. This is to symbolize how water creates a sense of relief from stress. The girl floats with a clear and relaxed mind. . . .As if the person in the water is in a sensory deprivation tank. Which I've done research about ... a person would enter a pod filled with salt water, naked or clothed, floating completely in darkness usually no sound. Many hallucinate with the lack of sight and sound. (Hints the burst of color surrounding the girl in the water.) Most enter the tank with the intentions of clearing the mind as a form of meditation."
The Adventures of Green Bean and Strawberry
2020
Painting - Mixed Media
"This piece is meant to express my love for water even as a child, taking baths with my sister. Playing mermaids and pirates, or characters in movies. A child doesn’t need to have a pool in order to have fun with water."
2020
Painting - Mixed Media
"This piece is meant to express my love for water even as a child, taking baths with my sister. Playing mermaids and pirates, or characters in movies. A child doesn’t need to have a pool in order to have fun with water."
Stage Fright
2021
Painting - Mixed Media
Regional Gold Medal - VASE 2021
"The red glitter over her scars are supposed to catch the viewers eyes, in order to suggest we all show off our bodies, it loves us and keeps us alive. The creepy eyes fixated on her to represent the people who have nothing to do other than judging the confident."
2021
Painting - Mixed Media
Regional Gold Medal - VASE 2021
"The red glitter over her scars are supposed to catch the viewers eyes, in order to suggest we all show off our bodies, it loves us and keeps us alive. The creepy eyes fixated on her to represent the people who have nothing to do other than judging the confident."
Concealment
2021
Painting - Mixed Media
Regional Gold Medal - VASE 2021
"This piece is supposed to represent how it feels to hide your emotions. When you choose to conceal your thoughts and feelings you experience the sensation of being trapped and overwhelmed. . I chose to use the shower for the confined space because, (at least for me) it’s a place I’ve spent hours thinking, crying and sitting on the floor as the hot water runs down my back. It’s a good place to do whatever , because no one can hear you. . The “steam” is to represent more like exhaust. As if by concealing your emotions, you’re slowly killing yourself/destroying yourself. . The bright colored tiles on the walls are to represent the false version of yourself you’ve chosen to become on the outside."
2021
Painting - Mixed Media
Regional Gold Medal - VASE 2021
"This piece is supposed to represent how it feels to hide your emotions. When you choose to conceal your thoughts and feelings you experience the sensation of being trapped and overwhelmed. . I chose to use the shower for the confined space because, (at least for me) it’s a place I’ve spent hours thinking, crying and sitting on the floor as the hot water runs down my back. It’s a good place to do whatever , because no one can hear you. . The “steam” is to represent more like exhaust. As if by concealing your emotions, you’re slowly killing yourself/destroying yourself. . The bright colored tiles on the walls are to represent the false version of yourself you’ve chosen to become on the outside."