Joel Bowers

Joel Bowers was born in Billings Montana and raised in Choteau and Great Falls Montana. His formal education ended at Montana State University in Bozeman in 1969 with a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering. After successful careers as and engineer, a manager and an independent computer consultant, he is currently working as a full time, self employed digital artist, creating at least one new digital image a day.
He discovered in grad school during a wheel thrown pottery class that he was more interested in creating things than in the typical teamwork participation in engineering projects. The Army, Vietnam and the need to start earning a living once out of the service took him 20 years down the corporate technical road.
With the appearance of personal computers in the 80’s, he discovered that he could “create” on his own using computer tools. He ended his engineering career in 1990 after working overseas in the oil industry for 13 years and saving enough money to establish his own computer consulting company. New Hampshire was where he settled and solved database problems for a multitude of clients on the East Coast until shortly after death of his first wife in 2004.
He retired to Montana in 2008 with his girl friend...

Self taught digital abstract artist and retired mechanical engineer and database consultant.