Milton Keynes Gallery Cost: £30 or £27 for Art Fund members Fifty years after the death of Laurence Stephen Lowry in 1976, this will be the much-loved painter's first major exhibition in over a decade. In addition to his well known scenes of industrial life, this significant overview explores the full breadth of Lowry's subject matter including portraits, seascapes,early academic studies in pencil, charcoal and pastel and enigmatic later works recalling Surrealism. Lowry's career ran alongside huge changes in British society with much of the industrial landscape he depicted closed, cleared and replaced during his lifetime. The artist's technique involved just five colours of undiluted oil paint: ivory black, vermillion, Prussian blue and yellow ochre; his use of flake white as a background colour is synonomous with Lowry's landscapes. Depart Stratton Way 9.15 and Rye Farm car park at 9.20 Depart Milton Keynes 14.30 To secure a place email info@theartssocietyabingdon.org.uk or phone 01235-522886. |