Here's a new painting drying on the stand. With a working title 'Taken by Trees',
It'll be part of a new wilderness-driven collection, hopefully released early 2014. New paintings are starting to emerge, inspired from my photo journal and found source material while living in NYC (it's heaven for a magpie like me).
'Candles For Sandy' is an ongoing body of work based on my encounters before, during and after the hurricane. [view paintings] Feel It All . 110x100cm . oil on panel . © Ben Lowe 2012 This was the last painting I made in my London studio before my 2012 stint in N.Y.C. The painting was shipped 10,000 miles to its new home in Sydney. During the late 1800s and early 1900s my family were merchants in London's Billingsgate market. I thought it was about time I got down there to see what the modern day Billingsgate was all about. Alarm set for 5am and wellies at the ready, I spent a morning photographing the traders and porters as they went about their business.
Porter . 78x61cm . oil on panel . 2012 EMPHASIS paintings - No's 3&4. View All
Ben has made a collection of Twelve unique radial paintings, each at 61x61cm, painted in oil on panel. These new 'Emphasis' paintings can also be commissioned to-order. Get in touch to find out more. A selection of six from the collection are now also available as limited-edition prints on paper buy online |
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