Flora Bowley (pronounced bowl-ee) is an artist, retreat facilitator, creative catalyst, and author of five books: The Art of Aliveness, Brave Intuitive Painting, Creative Revolution, Fresh Paint, and Earth is Holding You. Her colorful and layered paintings are also used to design calendars, cards, planners, journals, fabric, and unique product lines sold around the world.

Blending over twenty-five years of professional painting experience with her background as a yoga instructor, healer, and life-long truth seeker, Flora's soulful and unique approach to the creative process has inspired thousands of people to reconnect with their innate creative wisdom and to use that connection as fuel for more aliveness.

Flora has shared her signature blend of art, movement, and creative living practices for over a decade via online courses and in-person retreats in places Bali, Australia, Mexico, Portugal, Morocco, Italy, Ireland, Canada, the UK, and all across the US.

Flora's art and words have been featured in publications such as:

BOOKS: Art Inc., Creative Pilgrimage, Painting in Acrylics, The Empowered Artist, The Handmade Marketplace, Art Abandonment, Paint Lab for Kids, Painted Blossoms, Spirit Almanac, and Wiser and Wilder.

MAGAZINES: Spirituality and Health, Where Women Create, In her Studio, Cloth Paper Scissors, Somerset Life, Business Heroine, Happiness and Wellbeing, dpi, and Professional Artist.

BLOGS + EVENTS: The Chopra Center, The Shift Network, The Gathering of the Creatives with Julia Cameron, SARK’s Succulent Wild World, Creative Bug, The Brave Girl Symposium, Squam Art Workshops, Do What You Love Retreats, The Abundant Artist, Uplift, Creative Living with Jamie Ridler, Raise Your Hand and Say Yes, Unclassified Woman, Highlight Real, Creative Superhero, The Left-Brained Artist, and many more.

Flora lives and works in Portland, OR.