Geoff Lowe

Born in 1936 at Wordsley, a village on the edge of the Black Country to working class parents. They were surrounded on one hand with the beautiful countryside of Shropshire to the west, while to the east stretched the industrial midlands.

A present of a bicycle for his 15th birthday was to have a lasting effect on his future life, and in the following years rode thousands of miles with the local cycling club. Often combining his rides with sketching.

His father started his working life as a designer in the local Stourbridge glass industry, and so encourage his sons creative talent when he was accepted aged 13 to attend the Stourbridge Junior Art School, and two years later progressing into the main art school. Here he stayed for the next six years, studying in the old traditions, with many hours spent in the 'life room' drawing the nude figure, which is the most testing activity for the visual artist. Other studies included, painting, printmaking,sculpture, pottery and glass design.

By the age of twenty he was an accomplished designer and draughtsman, having completed his degree in Painting with Lithography. Faced, frustratingly, with an offer of a place at the Royal College of Art and two years mandatory National Service,...

Stourbridge School of Art 1949 - 1957
West of England College of Art, Bristol, 1959 - 1960

Senior Lecturer Newcastle Poly Fine Art Dept 1960/ 1988

Group show in Chichester 2016 at the Oxmarket Gallery.