Career - Arnold Lowrey

Arnold Lowrey has been painting for over 35 years, in watercolours, oils, acrylics and soft pastels.

He has regular exhibitions of his paintings in the South Wales area and has had work accepted and exhibited in the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London.

In 2000, he won the Portrait Prize in the annual exhibition of the South Wales Art Society at Turner House, Penarth. The previous year, he won overall First Prize together with best acrylic, best portrait and best still life.

In addition he was chosen as the public's choice in both the 1999 and 2000 Christmas Art Exhibitions at St David's Hall, Cardiff, which is part of Cardiff County Council

He is a painting demonstrator for major art material suppliers e.g. Winsor & Newton and regularly provides painting demonstrations to Art Societies throughout South Wales and Southern England.

He now runs weekly painting courses and specialised weekends in the Cardiff area and residential courses in Wiltshire, and has run a number of courses in Portugal.

Residential courses are held at Urchfont Manor, near Devizes, Wiltshire and The Hill Conference centre, Abergavenny, Gwent

Every year, he is demonstrating watercolour in the Creativ Exhibition in Zurich, Switzerland.

He has written two books on watercolour published by Search Press Ltd, one of which has also been translated into Italian and Dutch and Russian. They are sold worldwide. A new book on acrylics is being published in March 2006

Four Videos/DVDs have been produced on his techiques in Watercolour and acrylics and a further four are planned for 2006.

The subjects of his paintings vary from landscapes to still life, portraiture, abstracts etc.

The priority in his work is good shapes and design combined with a feeling for the subject utilising both both light and colour.He likes to paint large and vertically - his watercolours are full sheet (30ins x 22ins)

Currently, he is an Professional Associate of the Society of All Artists.

He was Chairman of the South Wales Art Society from 1999 - 2002.

In his "spare time", he enjoys his computer and jazz music.

Although his health failed in 2005, his subsequent operation has now been successful and he is back to full "painting" health