[3] She was an active member of the prestigious Midland Group - 'a regionally influential collective of Modernist painters based in Nottingham with links to the St Ives School and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham'[3] - and through this formed an enduring friendship with its founding member, Evelyn Gibbs.
She married John Bowett in 1943, whose death in 1994 inspired 'an extraordinary series of paintings' shown at the Pierrepoint Gallery, Nottinghamshire.
[1] Alongside her artistic career, Bowett had many public responsibilities including acting as 'committee member, then chair, of the governing bodies of Chesterfield and Loughborough Colleges of Art and Design',[1] and was later elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
[1] An active member of The Midland Group, her paintings featured in many of their exhibitions held in Nottingham between 1940-60.
[1] During the 1950s, Bowett's work became increasingly abstractionist, with 'a hard-won clarity and abstraction of form [being] achieved during the 1960s in such paintings as Brown and Yellow and Wookery'.