It’s 1934, and LS “Laurie” Lowry’s debt-ridden father has been dead a few years. Laurie, rent collector by day and attic artist by night, is slowly paying those debts off, while still living at home with his belittling, bed-ridden mother Elizabeth. Adrian Noble’s film, adapted by Martyn Heasford from his own play, is a fascinating… Mrs Lowry & Son Read More
INTERVIEW: artist Frank Gray on painting Lowrys for Mrs Lowry & Son
Painter and photographer Frank Gray recreated six “Lowry’s” for the film Mrs Lowry & Son, starring Timothy Spall as the artist LS Lowry and Vanessa Redgrave as his mother. The film starts in 1934, when Lowry was in his late 40s – a rent collector by day and an attic painter by night, still living… INTERVIEW: artist Frank Gray on painting Lowrys for Mrs Lowry & Son Read More
Lowry and me: a match(stick) made in heaven?
LS Lowry: Northern, trained artist, famous for his scenes of Lancastrian industrial life, modest (he turned down a knighthood), paintings now selling for millions. Me: Northern, got a C for Art O’Level in 1987, famous for making scenes, likes to blow my own trumpet, I put my painting on social media and let’s be honest, no… Lowry and me: a match(stick) made in heaven? Read More