A Tone Painting

Angus Lowe studied Art History at University of Manchester before an MA in Architectural History at UCL. His process allows for a kind of miraculous development of forms. The first step requires a clearing of mind in front of the canvas so that the first marks are intuitive, freed from intention close to Surrealism's automatic drawing. Often using a marker pen, the lines become a notation for a subject. Imagining the physicality of being that subject, a methodology developed from BA research into empathy and kinaesthetics, suggests a certain gestural energy, which is then manifested with oil paint. This method necessarily results in a wide variety of images due to chance being at their evolutionary core. What they have in common is considered attention to the characteristics of each brush stroke and how their painterly interaction reveals the underlying force of the subject.