Holywell Street, Oxford Painting

Camilla Dowse was born in Berkshire, England, and is currently based in the Cotswolds. Working mainly in acrylic on gesso panels, her impressionistic urban landscapes explore the beauty of the built environment. Camilla studied graphic design at the Berkshire College of Art and for a number of years worked as a picture editor for many of the major book publishers. Her work has been selected for exhibition by the New English Art Club, the Bath Art Society, the Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition, and the Society of Women Artists. In 2014 she was named Artist of the Year by Artists & Illustrators Magazine, she was awarded the Chairman’s Prize at the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition in 2017 and 2018, and was presented with the Neil Meacher RI Award by the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours in 2018. In 2019 she appeared on Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year, and she’s been a member of the Oxford Art Society since 2022.