 Currently showing selected paintings from my recent Candles For Sandy collection at the new
Thompson's Contemporary Gallery, 594 Kings Road, London SW6 2DX. www.thompsonscontemporary.co.uk  Just finished this large canvas for a private client in Queens Park, London. The double-height atrium space has a walkway along one side on first floor level so the artwork can be viewed from loads of angles. Bucket-loads of natural light and white walls gave it a cool gallery feel.
200x300cm . oil on canvas 
Look Left & Look Right . 100x100cm . Bespoke Canvas Prints w/ Black framing
image courtesy London Home Staging
 My new (2nd) favourite restaurant. If you like pizza, then get down to Roberta's in Brooklyn.
The fascia is a bit unassuming, granted, but such greatness lies within. [website] I'll protect you from the hooded claw Keep the vampires from your door When the chips are down I'll be around With my undying, death-defying Love for you Frankie Goes To Hollywood, 1984
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]
 © Ben Lowe 2012
photo taken in London by Philip Durrant . courtesy of Spring & Mercer  Armada. 95x120cm . oil on linen . © Ben Lowe 2012
photo taken in Kensington, London . courtesy of Catherine Wilman Interiors  ea. 122x94cm . oil on panel . © Ben Lowe 2012
photo taken in Covent Garden, London by Philip Durrant . courtesy of Spring & Mercer
Max Kozloff wrote in 1967 that Arbus's photographs have "an extraordinary ethical conviction".
Also shown is 'A Beggar' by LS Lowry (c1965)  You're one of those elephant hunters from Ebbsfleet
Primordial superman I know the trouble you've gotten in Leave this trouble half cottoned down Excerpt from 'Wayne Rooney'  My small (but perfectly formed!) studio in Brooklyn, NYC - home for the remainder of 2012
 Strange to be living in NYC during hurricane Sandy. Some amazing photos have emerged, it's hard to imagine this photo was taken in Queens, it reminds me more of India. photo Spencer Platt  NYC photographer, Helen Levitt (1913-2009). A self-taught, school drop-out... my kind of woman!
Levitt grew up in Brooklyn and focussed most of her attention on local street photography. |
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