Since the early nineteen-seventies he has been practicing the demanding art of traditional painting in the historic Fenway Studios. Trained under the painstaking tutelage of R.H. Ives Gammell, Mr. Lowrey carries on the tradition of Tarbell, Benson, Paxton and their nineteenth-century French masters – a tradition of close attention to the objective visual experience and fidelity to a craft refined through generations of artistic effort. Mr. Lowrey’s work is distinguished by the diligence and restraint of his vision and the passionate proficiency of his technique. His paintings are a testimony that the past can speak to the present – that both immediacy and permanence are possible in a modern work of art.