Alex Lowery

RADIANCE

Saturday 18 November – 21 January 2024

We are lucky enough to represent Alex Lowery and are pleased to arrange commissions where applicable. Unless otherwise stated, Alex Lowery’s canvases are presented and hung unframed tight against the wall.

The sunshine and architecture of Greece and Sicily has brought new brilliance to Alex Lowery’s most recent paintings both of Ydra and Ortigia as well as his more northerly and well-known locations in Portland, West Bay and Orkney. Compositions of roofs and different planes of light set the current moment against the timeless wonders of sea, sky and mountain. Alex is a painter whose sense of colour and unusual angles consistently surprises and refreshes the eye. Often linked to the work of Edward Hopper, Alex Lowery’s wide and deep knowledge of art history feed into his own highly original sensibility.

Alex Lowery’s most recent paintings can be seen below and are all available to buy or reserve now. Please call us on phone +44 (0)1308 459511 or email gallery@sladersyard.co.uk with any enquiries.

The first group of paintings are showing in the Radiance exhibition. The second much larger group can be viewed by appointment at the gallery.

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  Ortigia 2022. 25 x 45cm. oil on canvas. £1,625

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  Coast Road 3. 2021. 55 x 120cm oil on canvas. £5,800

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  Arts Centre. 2021. 30 x 25cm. oil on canvas. £1,250

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  Portland 174. 2023. 30 x 65cm. oil on canvas £2,450

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  Portland 171 2023. 25 x 30cm. oil on linen SOLD

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  Portland 169. 2023. 35 x 40cm. oil on canvas. £1,900

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  Portland 148 2019. 25 x 40cm oil on canvas. SOLD

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  West Bay 317. 2022. 40 x 100cm. oil on canvas. £4,200

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  Ydra Window 1. 2023. oil on canvas 45 x 55cm. £2,900

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  Ydra Window 2. 2023. oil on canvas. 40 x 40cm. £2,150

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  Ydra Window 10. 2023. 30 x 55cm. oil on canvas £2,150

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  Barnstaple 3 2019 35 x 50 cm £2,300

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  Orkney 3. 2022. 25 x 50cm. oil on canvas. £1,750

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  Chesil 1 oil on linen  25 x 45 cm SOLD

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  Chesil 2. 2017. oil on linen. 29.5 x 23.5cm £1,250

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  West Bay 222 Study 2008. carbon pencil on paper 18 x 20.5cm; framed size 43 x 44cm £600

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  West Bay. 2009 16 x 32cm. framed size 32 x 48.5cm £650

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  Portland 2008. carbon pencil on paper. 13 x 23cm. framed size 30 x 39.5cm. £550

The paintings shown below are available to buy or reserve now. They can be viewed in the gallery by appointment. Any enquiries please contact us on gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or tel +44 (0)1308 459511.2

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  Arts Centre. 2021. 30 x 25cm. oil on canvas. £1,250

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  Bergamo 2022. 35 x 25cm. oil on canvas. £1,400

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  Coast Road 2. 2020. 21 x 46cm. oil on archival illustrator board £1,500

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  Coast Road 3. 2021. 55 x 120cm oil on canvas. £5,800

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  Flood Scheme 3. 2021. 25 x 60cm. oil on canvas. £2,000

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  Mayo 16 2020 35 x 70 cm £2,900

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  Minster. 2021. 30 x 35cm. oil on canvas. £1,625

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  Orkney 1. 2022. 35 x 100cm oil on canvas. £3,800

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  Orkney 3. 2022. 25 x 50cm. oil on canvas. £1,875

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  West Bay 318. 2022. 25 x 45cm. oil on canvas. £1,750

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  West Bay 317. 2022. 40 x 100cm. oil on canvas. £4,200

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  West Bay 316. 2022. 25 x 65cm. oil on canvas. £2,150

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  Topsham 5 2020 25 x 45 cm £1,750

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  Topsham 7. 2021. 55 x 120cm. oil on canvas. £5,800

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  Portland 166. 2022. 25 x 55cm. oil on canvas. £1,875

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  Portland 164. 2022. 25 x 45cm. oil on canvas. £1,750

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  Portland 161. 2021. 25 x 35cm. oil on canvas. £1,400

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  Portland 158. 2021. 25 x 55cm. oil on canvas. £1,875

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  Portland 156. 2021. 25 x 60cm. oil on canvas. £2,000

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  Portland 155 2021. 25 x 45cm. oil on linen. £1,750

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  Portland 153. 2020. 25 x 55cm. oil on linen. £1,875

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  Portland 148 2019. 25 x 40cm oil on canvas. SOLD

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  Portland 160. 2021. 38 x 85cm. charcoal on paper, framed.£1,500

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  Stromness. 2022. 33 x 92cm. charcoal on paper. framed £1,500

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  West Bay 311 2019 30 x 80cm. oil on canvas. £2,860

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  West Bay 300 2018. 25 x 45 cm oil on canvas £1,750

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  West Bay 295 2017. 25 x 35cm oil on linen £1,400

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  West Bay 294 2017 50 x 120 cm oil on canvas £5,500

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  West Bay 290 20 x 30cm oil on canvas £995

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  West Bay 284 25 x 50cm oil on canvas £1,875

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  West Bay 260 40 x 45cm oil on canvas. £2,300

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  West Bay 234 56 x 137cm oil on canvas £6,300

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  Topsham 4, 2020, 25.5 x 35.5 cm, £1,400

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  Topsham 3, 2020, 25.5 x 35.5 cm £1,400

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  Topsham 2, 2020, 30 x 65 cm £2,450

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  Flood Scheme 2 2020 25 x 50 cm. oil on linen £1,875

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  Portland 151 2019. 55 x 140 cm oil on canvas £6,300

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  Portland 150 2020. 60 x 130cm. oil on canvas £6,360

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  Portland 149 2019. 30 x 35cm oil on linen. £1,625

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  Portland 147 2019. 30 x 45cm. oil on canvas £1,850

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  Portland 143. 2019. 80 x 45cm. oil on canvas. £3,880

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  Portland 142 2019. 30 x 65cm oil on canvas. £2,450

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  Portland 141 50 x 110 cm £6,000

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  Portland 137 2019. 25 x 55 cm oil on canvas. £1,850

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  Portland 135 2018/20. 30 x 60 cm oil on canvas £2,300

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  Portland 127 2018 40 x 90cm oil on canvas £3,880

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  Portland 125 2017. 46 x 97cm oil on canvas £4,500

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  Portland 120 25 x 45 cm £1,750

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  Chesil 1 25 x 45 cm SOLD

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  Barnstaple 3 2019 35 x 50 cm £2,300

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  Barnstaple 2 2019 40 x 90 cm oil on canvas. £3,880

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  Barnstaple 1 2019 25 x 35 cm oil on linen £1,400

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  Honesty 2020 21x15cm oil on archival illustrator board £600

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  Mallows 2020. 21 x 15cm. oil on archival illustrator board £600

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  Poppy 2020. 21 x 15cm. oil on archival illustrator board £600

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  Pulmonaria 2020. 21 x 15cm. oil on archival illustrator board £600

When he is not painting, Alex is an accomplished pianist and his musicality shines through in his paintings. He talks of chromatic harmonies, of ‘treating colours like chords’ and ‘shifting the harmonies around.’ The surprising, eye-catching forms and colours he uses in the paintings are actually observable in nature although often our minds seem to edit them out. It takes looking at Alex Lowery’s paintings sometimes to make one recognise what has been there all along. Yet his work is always art, not actuality. He is working with degrees of illusion, finding the balance between the openness of spontaneous free invention and the alchemy of his art that distills his subject matter into the essence of itself. It takes bravery and constant reinvention, playfulness and discipline to make these paintings because ‘doing art is an act of faith in itself.’

Born 1957 in London, Alex Lowery studied at Bath Academy, Sir John Cass School of Art and the Central School of Art in London. He has painted and shown regularly in Dorset and London since 1994. He exhibitied for many years with Art First in London and has shown at the Estorick Collection and at Browse and Darby. His work is in many distinguished private collections as well as the Dorset County Hospital Art Collection, Great Ormond Street Hospital, St George’s Hospital Tooting and the Fidelity International Art Collection. He lives in Charmouth with the artist Vanessa Gardiner.

• Alex Lowery’s solo shows at Sladers Yard: 2006, 2009, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024

PICTURING, LAND USE and CAST LIGHT, 16-page booklets of Alex Lowery’s recent solo shows at Sladers Yard, are each available from the gallery at £6 plus £1.50 p&p. 

Alex Lowery’s paintings are shown below and are available to buy or reserve now. Please contact the gallery on gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or telephone: 00 44 (0)1308 459511 if you would like to enquire about a painting. Please click on an image to see them all better. Alex Lowery’s paintings are presented on canvases made of canvas or linen stretched on a wooden former unframed and hung tight against the wall. All, that is, apart from Wynford Eagle 2 which is presented in a white-painted wooden frame.

ALEX LOWERY