The first part of his life he was an electrical engineer but became interested in art about forty years ago. He moved through acrylic, soft pastels and oils but always comes back to his love of watercolours.

On retiring from his first profession, 20 years ago, he became a professional painter. Since that time he has written four booksand made over 20 DVDs on watercolour, acrylics and pastels.

Painting in all media and he has run workshops and painting holidays in Portugal, Switzerland  and Texas, USA as well as many parts of the UK and the cruise liners.

He has exhibited in the Royal Institute of Painters in watercolour in London UK

The love of the luminosity of watercolour attracts him but he is not afraid to add gouache where it is needed. He also likes to paint in high intensity colours using little water

Many of his paintings are created by adding colour into wet paper to retain the luminosity as long as possible and often uses razor blades to scrape out the light edges

Arnold Lowrey has been painting for 36 years. He has regular exhibitions of his paintings in the South Wales area and has had work accepted and exhibited in the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London. He has won several prizes for his paintings in a number of Art Exhibitions. 
He is a painting demonstrator for major art material suppliers e.g. Winsor & Newton, . and Art Profile and regularly provides painting demonstrations to Art Societies throughout South Wales and Southern England.
He has demonstrated for a number of years with Winsor & Newton  in Zurich, Switzerland, and has tutored workshops and painting holidays in Portugal and Texas.

 Over the past eighteen years, a considerable number of artists have attended these courses, which  cover watercolour, acrylics, pastels and oils. The subjects of his paintings vary from landscapes to still life, portraiture, abstracts etc. The weekly courses are currently located at Taffs Well Rugby Club, Taffs Well, Near Cardiff.
His motivation is a desire for good shapes and texture in his paintings but foremost is his desire to interpret his feelings for each subject using colour and luminosity.

His  tutors residential painting courses at Urchfont Manor, near Devizes, Wiltshire, and The Farncombe Estate Centre, Broadway, Cotswolds., and also include the Toorak Hotel, Torquay in the venues. (see EVENTS page for details)

His latest venture is as an art instructor on Cruise Liners and will be cruising to the Mediterranean in July 2011.(see Events page)
Details of these holidays and courses can be obtained from the venue and events pages of this website.

In 2001, Search Press published his first book entitled "Sea & Sky in Watercolour" . His next book entitled “Watercolour Tips and Techniques – Starting to Paint” was published in November 2002.  His third book, "Painting in Acrylics" was published in 2006 followed by "Ready to Paint - Hills and Mountains" in 2009. Some of the books have been published in Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Russian and Arabic. The books have already sold 186,000 copies worldwide.

He has made, to date, 21 DVDs . containing full demonstrations of his paintings. Some of these have been shown on the Painting and drawing Channel on Sky TV and also parts of Europe. They are also shown that week on You Tube on the internet.