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There Bowey gained a First Class Diploma and was awarded a continuation scholarship and a David Murray Landscape Scholarship.

Her first exhibition was at Leicester Galleries, London. Bowey was included in group exhibitions at London's Zwemmer Gallery in 1961 and in 1969 at New Grafton Gallery, London. A portraitist at first, Bowey began to focus on concentrate on landscape and still-life when she moved to the country. Following the tradition of the artist plantswoman, Bowey exhibited Olwyn Bowey Drawings in the Royal Academy Friends' Room on this theme in 2000. Bowey likes to work in situ, either outdoors or in her glasshouse, which is also her studio.

Bowey is an Honorary Member of the Royal West of England Academy and an Associate of the Royal College of Art. Bowey lives and works in Sussex.