Fowler and West at Paul's Homewood Café

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THIS EXHIBITION IS AN INVITATIONAL. IF THE MFA HAS NOT CONTACTED YOU PLEASE DO NOT REGISTER AND APPLY.Christopher B Fowler and Peter T West on Display at Paul's Homewood CaféChristopher B Fowler Artist BioChristopher B Fowler has been taking photographs since high school. He has been exhibiting his work since 2010. He started out as a graphic artist, got interested in making animated movies in middle and high school, shifted over to live action movies (this was in the golden age of super-8 home-movie film), developed a particular interest in cinematography (an otherwise largely forgotten film of Ingmar Bergman's called, "The Touch," was a particular inspiration); then in college he saw a print of Edward Steichen's famous early color photograph of the Flatiron Building and it's been photography ever since.His work has appeared in galleries throughout the United States as well as Toronto, London, Paris, Athens, Amsterdam, Milan, Venice, Rome, Barcelona, Seoul, Tokyo and Dubai. He is currently a “Home Artist” of the Galleri Soho in Västerås, Sweden.Peter T West Artist BioPeter began his career as a photojournalist decades ago, though he never worked as one full-time. And, although a near lifelong Anne Arundel County resident, his work will take you, as it did him, to Antarctica, Africa, Cuba, China and underwater.In retirement, he turned to "fine art" photography, especially abstracts from our national parks, where he has frequently volunteered. He also married his passion for scuba diving with his love of photography. His images have been displayed in several Maryland Federation of Art (MFA) juried shows. Most recently, his work was selected, along with other artists’, for the annual MFA show at the Lowe Maryland House of Delegates building.In the past year, at total of six of his images have appeared in the three of the four juried quarterly shows in the Gateway Gallery at BWI / Thurgood Marshall Airport, which the airport and the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County jointly support. In October, he held a one-person show - Havana Through Cuban Eyes - of more than 40 pieces of “street photography” from Cuba in the Garden Gallery at Quiet Waters Park in Annapolis. In November, two of his underwater images appeared in Wildlife Wonders at the Chesapeake Arts Center and one among three images concurrently on display in the Artists Eye show at the Benfield Gallery.Peter worked almost exactly half his career as a journalist and half in public relations. In PR, he worked in the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs (OPP) as science writer and took news media on visits to cover OPP research Greenland, at the North Pole and in Antarctica. Exhibition Schedule:Feb 4 Exhibition OpensReception TBDMay 5 Last Day of the Exhibition