Location: United States
Paula J. Bowers is a Michigan-based fiber and mixed-media artist whose work explores the emotional power of color through wool, silk, and found materials. Using wet felting, layered textiles, and sculptural construction, she creates immersive works that blur the boundaries between painting, fiber art, and mixed media.
Inspired by flowers, water, and organic forms, Bowers transforms traditional fiber techniques into richly textured surfaces that evoke movement, transformation, and wonder. Her work often incorporates natural and reclaimed materials, adding depth, symbolism, and tactile complexity to each piece.
Beginning with weaving on Navajo looms built by her father, Bowers has developed a distinctive visual language that combines vibrant color with dimensional form. She has exhibited nationally, including eight participations in ArtPrize, and her work is held in corporate and private collections throughout the United States.
Paula J. Bowers is a Michigan-based fiber and mixed-media artist whose work explores the emotional power of color through wool, silk, and found materials. Using wet felting, layered textiles, and sculptural construction, she creates immersive works that blur the boundaries between painting, fiber art, and mixed media.
Inspired by flowers, water, and organic forms, Bowers transforms traditional fiber techniques into richly textured surfaces that evoke movement, transformation, and wonder. Her work often incorporates natural and reclaimed materials, adding depth, symbolism, and tactile complexity to each piece.
Beginning with weaving on Navajo looms built by her father, Bowers has developed a distinctive visual language that combines vibrant color with dimensional form. She has exhibited nationally, including eight participations in ArtPrize, and her work is held in corporate and private collections throughout the United States.
Created with hand-felted wool rather than pigment, The Bloom transforms fiber into a luminous field of color. A gently tilted center invites viewers into the flower’s interior, evoking wonder, vitality, and the quiet beauty of becoming.
Using wool and silk in place of paint, Unfolding Radiance explores color as emotion and movement. Radiant layers of fiber create depth and texture, inviting viewers into an immersive floral landscape filled with warmth, energy, and ligh
The spiral serves as both a personal and universal metaphor—a reminder that growth is rarely linear and that meaning often reveals itself through movement, reflection, and trust in the unknown. Through vibrant color, texture, and symbolic detail, Swirl invites viewers to slow down, listen, and embrace the unfolding path before them. Open the door and allow the everyday magic of life to enter. The work is an invitation to find beauty, wonder, and possibility within life’s continuous flow.
Created with wet-felted wool, silk, and hand-split mica, Ko Olina Pond captures the movement and reflective qualities of water. Shimmering surfaces and layered textures evoke the experience of looking into a pond where light, color, and current continually shift beneath the surface.
Come Fly With Me is a sculptural fiber work inspired by the courage to pursue one’s dreams. Hand-felted from wool and silk, the eye-less birds symbolize trust, intuition, and the willingness to move forward into the unknown, guided by hope and the wisdom of the heart.
Created with wet-felted wool, silk, and mixed media, In The Flow explores life’s ever-changing journey through the movement of water. The work reflects themes of transformation, choice, and trusting the unfolding path.
“The Bloom”
“Unfolding Radiance”
“Swirl”
“KoOlina Pond”
“Come Fly With Me”
“In The Flow”
