My notes from Cian Quayle speech, he talks about one of his works.
The sea is an important metaphor to Lowry. His work shows a run down shack in Doulton. Departure and arrival, looks for recurrent motifs. Loss to a place that was once familiar. The work is autobiographical, it is about the artist and his journey. He lived in London for 10 years.
My notes from Pete Flowers talk
His work is about 'Day of the dead' Iconic imagery from Buddahism, Hinduism etc seeped into his way of working. Fascination of having skeletons and angels. He has dealt with religious iconography. Religion and spirituality works in layers in his paintings, iconic and formalised. Pete Flowers started his career as a printmaker. The artist was going to have a candle placed below one of his paintings so that people would have to kneel down in a praying position to read the inscription on the candle. But this was not allowed for health and safety reasons. Lowry wrote in layers like Pete Flowers does in his paintings.
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