Throughout her career Owen has worked in series in order to explore how color, shape, material and paint itself develop and change one’s experience of each piece, while consistently exploring her subject matter. As a formalist, her work plays with space and the relationship between shapes. As a colorist, she is trying to create effective and emotional responses to the work. And when paint is applied to a flat surface (paper, canvas) and used to build shapes, the work can be a unique hybrid of painting and sculpture.