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Druie Bowett (1924-1998) was an English artist and member of The Midland Group and Women's International Art Club.

Life
Born Drucilla Glover in Ripon, North Yorkshire in 1924, Bowett attended the Queen Margaret's School, York before studying at the Harrogate School of Art under John Cooper, a pupil of Walter Sickert. In 1942, she formed a lifelong friendship with the Hungarian artist Jean-Georges Simon, and later worked alongside notable artists such as Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Terry Frost and Prunella Clough. She was an active member of the prestigious Midland Group - ‘a forum for progressive and experimental visual arts in Nottingham' - 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.

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', and was later elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.