Seb Gower Art · the path
21st-century impressionist. Traveller. Dad with paint under his nails. Six moments from the path — true or false, then the real story.
Studio · parrot & palette
Swipe photos
Studio scrapbook
Swipe the stack — life between paintings.
Moment 1
Swipe moments
I was so full of “how” but barren of “why”.
— after Fine Arts College, before the real work began
From the wall · tap a work to open it in the archive
Six chapters
1998
Chapter 01 · 1998
As a kid, Seb painted on giant glass panels outside the family home — and his mother washed them clean every evening.
Each day, five-year-old me would cover the 20 giant glass panels in front of our family home with every idea I could imagine. Every evening, my mother would rinse them clean with a garden hose.
2007
Chapter 02 · 2007
In school, Seb preferred singing over painting — it was the thing people loved most.
I'd take any excuse to find my way back to the arts department, only leaving it for a bit of drama practice. Singing was fun — but people didn't like that as much as my paintings.
2011
Chapter 03 · 2011
Seb finished Fine Arts College with top grades after a full four-year degree.
Wide-eyed and bushy-tailed — off to Fine Arts College with scholarships. After a streak of A+ grades, I dropped out after a year. Later I finished Art History and Philosophy. I was full of “how” but barren of “why”.
2017
Chapter 04 · 2017
Visual Snow took Seb’s control of detail — and years later he realised that lost control was what had been holding his art back.
My vision was set ablaze with a permanent film of shimmering stars. Visual Snow took easy detail and once-calm gradients. Five years later I learned the control I’d lost was holding my art back. Learn more.
2021
Chapter 05 · 2021
A 4-hour painting livestream from a restaurant storage shed at 2 a.m. reached around 650,000 people worldwide.
During lockdowns I livestreamed painting — first for family, then for strangers who became friends. In a restaurant storage shed at 2 a.m., a four-hour stream reached around 650,000 people.
2025
Chapter 06 · 2025
Seb’s collectors live only in New Zealand and Australia — nowhere else yet.
To collectors in Montana, Florida, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Texas, New York, Washington, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Laos, South Africa, Canada, Singapore, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. If your place isn’t listed — message me and I’ll fix it.
In the studio
Hands in the medium. Paper palettes when porcelain slows the fire. Places held long enough to become paint — from Doubtful Sound to Varanasi, Milford to Ban Gioc.
On walls worldwide
Missing yours? Let’s add your home.
Field notes · Fiordland
An epic paddle through silence and granite — the kind of place that ends up on canvas.
