Eleanor Lowden | Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times

3 - 27 June 2020

  • GFA is pleased to present “Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times,” a feature exhibit of paintings by Eleanor Lowden both online and in the gallery. 

     

    Utilizing a lively colour palette and simplified shape Lowden layers paint and hue to achieve a luminous quality and undertone to each work.  The artist elegantly captures a softly celebrated sense of the appreciation for not only the energetic excitement of contrast in colour but also in ordinary people themselves.

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    • Eleanor Lowden, Let’s Give them Something to Talk About
      Eleanor Lowden, Let’s Give them Something to Talk About
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    • Eleanor Lowden, Look Both Ways
      Eleanor Lowden, Look Both Ways
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  • Lowden's paintings are gentle studies of human nature, focusing in on the modest, everyday moments and interactions of ordinary people. The artist emphasizes normality with simplicity of basic form and a sketch like quality to each brush stroke, highlighting an examination of relationships, collaborations and the multitude of stories to be told by observing populated scenes.

  • Eleanor began her career more than 30 years ago in Toronto. She studied fine arts at the University of Western...

    Eleanor began her career more than 30 years ago in Toronto. She studied fine arts at the University of Western Ontario, and continued her studies at the Ontario College of Art and then at the Alberta College of Art. Throughout her career she has participated in various workshops and artist retreats to further her learning. Eleanor Lowden is both fascinated and inspired by people. "My paintings are meant to herald the day, and honour those simple moments that we all take for granted. Walking the dog, shopping, eating, holding hands, talking on the phone, texting. I love to watch crowds of people traveling in different directions, each with their own story and body language, lost in their own thoughts, being in close proximity to others but not necessarily connecting. Or perhaps they are connecting in their own way, and that I find equally fascinating and inspiring."

  • Eleanor Lowden Monday Morning We Got This Acrylic on Canvas 24 x 30 in 61 x 76.2 cm (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Eleanor Lowden On Our Merry Way Acrylic on Canvas 36 x 36 in 91.4 x 91.4 cm (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Eleanor Lowden That’s the Best News I’ve Heard All Day Acrylic on Canvas 36 x 36 in 91.4 x 91.4 cm (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Eleanor Lowden, Midtown Hues (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Eleanor Lowden, Blue Obsession (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Eleanor Lowden, Monday Morning We Got This
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  • Lowden purposefully reveals little about the people in her work, their faces often turned away from us or obscured. With the focus shifted away from their identity, we instead are encouraged to consider our relationship to their experience.

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