Lydia Richez-Bowman Arts

    Lydia Richez-Bowman was Born in Nice, France and currently lives in Southern California.

Her experiences as a child living in France near the Mediterranean Sea, exposed her to the unique antiquities and beauty of Nice and the surrounding areas, she gained an appreciation for beauty and the unusual at an early age.  After coming to America, she and her family moved often which exposed her to many new and diverse experiences. She spent much of her childhood exploring nature and constructing with found objects, cardboard, mud, or anything that was available at the time, she has an unwavering passion for both painting and constructing with paper, cardboard textiles and more. Nature is still a vital part of her daily life and in her art practice as well.

     While in college she studied fine arts which included painting, sculpture, metal work, jewelry design and construction also fiber and textile arts. She enrolled into an Interior Design transfer program focused on commercial designs with the intention of becoming a commercial interior designer.  

Richez-Bowman has also owned an art gallery with a studio where she created and taught classes. It was there that she developed a successful and rewarding arts therapy workshop for cancer survivors, patients and family members.

      Richez-Bowman has artwork in private collections across the country and in Europe.  She can also be found on Instagram and Facebook.

     I'm a multidisciplinary conceptual, feminist and abstract artist.  I work in acrylics, soft pastels, charcoal, textiles, fibers, papers, photography, metal, found objects from nature and more. I often incorporate several different materials into one piece of art. I’m always eager to try new and different ways of expressing my creative concepts as well as using traditional materials in non-traditional ways e.g. soft pastels.