About
Britney Fowler, a printmaker, book artist, and naturalist born & raised in Annapolis, MD, received her Bachelor of Arts in Art from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 2025. She has exhibited at Old Fox Books & Brown Mustache Coffee in Annapolis, Maryland, Boyden Gallery at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and Annmarie Sculpture Gardens and Arts Center. In 2024, Fowler was honored with the McCutchen Award based on artistic merit and the Student Government Association Award for Most Innovative Work. She was granted the Outstanding Work by a Fourth Year Student in the All Student Show at St. Mary’s College of Maryland for her work Bigger Fish.
Artist Statement:
My art revolves around our understanding of the self, and our identity within community as part of the natural processes of the world, not something above the natural order like modern society has led humanity to believe. I’m interested in using symbols found in our natural world in art as a way to communicate human experience and healing in coming to terms with humans' realistic place in the natural world, not the unrealistic standards of life and perfection that Western society pushes on the working classes. We are an imperfect perfection to our world, just like everything else so wildly beautiful and strange all in the same breath.
Today’s political climate in the United States threatens individuality, the environment, and our communities. This up-and-coming turmoil inspired me to think about the power of the image, the communities I love and care about, and how to bring those people together. We have been fed artificial division through our screens by people who say they have our best interests in mind. Using symbols found across history and the natural world, I aim to show that there can be a coexistence of is individuality and harmony in community once differences are put aside. Coming together as a species and realizing our place in the larger picture of the natural world will help people lead fuller lives.
I use a variety of mediums for my artwork, however, printmaking has been particularly powerful for my work because it allows for the same matrix, the same outline of a shape or figure to be transformed by color, perspective, and placement. This is a metaphor for how lives are shaped. We are all made from the same matter, the same stuff, but it's our experiences and our environment that shape our souls.
