Alex Lowery British, b. 1957

Alex Lowery, born 1957 in London, studied at Bath Academy, Sir John Cass School of Art and the Central School of Art. He is best known for his landscapes of the Dorset coast and has regularly exhibited in Dorset and London since 1994. Flattened spaces, simplified forms, heightened colours, a compelling formal precision and painterly subtleties, these are the characteristics which attach themselves to Alex Lowery's work and to the work of the American realists, Alex Katz and Edward Hopper, whose influence Lowery acknowledges. However, as the critic, David Cohen, commented there is also a surprising analogy to be made between Lowery and the Italian Futurist artist, De Chirico. "West Bay has...become something quite marvellous in Lowery's hands, like De Chirico's Ferrara, an actual place, but every bit as unreal as an invented city..., the town has been transformed quite simply, by being rendered as form".