Alban Low
www.albanlow.co.uk

By The artist:
Cambieure was where my drawing and painting first came alive. My work became part of the adventure I was experiencing. I’d always been an artist but it wasn’t until France that I learned how to really show my life and its surroundings through my paintings.

With such nature and beauty everywhere I watched the countryside change around me – the irises announcing the arrival of Spring, the bright sunlight reflecting off village roofs and the buzz of activity that came with the harvest.

I found that the clarity, colour and light I had discovered in Cambieure was hidden everywhere in London. From the bridges of the Thames to the imposing buildings of the city, all so impressive yet so often overlooked.

Biography

1971 Born in Rustington, West Sussex

1990-1993 Visual Arts Degree, De Montfort University

1993-1995 MA Applied Fine Art, Kingston University

1994-1996 Worked as a blackboard artist for shops around southeast England

1996-1999 Lecturer in drawing and painting at Brunel University and Kingston College

1999-2003 Moved to Cambieure (France), a small village of 180 people, to draw and paint the surrounding landscape

2002 First solo exhibition at the Penny School Gallery, Kingston

2003 Met Natalie and Effie and moved back to England

2004 Jessamy Joan Aye-Maung born in June