Wildlife Artist Richard Lowe
I have been painting in watercolors since 1973, which began as wildlife, a subject both my wife, Kitty and I were very familliar with and loved dearly. It all began by accident, as my major methods of painting were in oils and black and white pen and inks. But, as is usually the case, I was not at all happy with the end results of what I had painted, and neither was Kitty. It was Kitty who noticed how frustrated I was. “Why don’t you try those watercolors you received as a Christmas present.” So I finally took her advise…WOW…Did we discover what had been laying in the drawer of my drawing table for over two years. Watercolor was exactly what I needed to capture the images of all the animals; song birds; hummingbirds; and waterfowl in my wildlife watercolors.. My first subject, a mountain lion, we had assisted Mr. Harold Darling at the Big Bear Zoo in Big Bear California, in raising from the day it was born until two years later it attempted to eat me.This painting aided Kitty and I into developing watercolor prints in both color and in black and white into animal and bird watercolor prints. We opened our first gallery , 400 square feet, in Blue Jay California in 1974. Kitty ran the gallery and I entered art shows throughout California sending my customers up to our gallery to see more paintings and watercolor prints, then in 1976 SAGA Publishing published my bald eagle and bison for their becentennial prints distributed throughout the United States. But our customer base began to grow until the gallery became too small to handle our growing inventory. So we moved our gallery and Kitty’s new gift store, Miss Kitty’s English Garden, to Lake Arrowhead Village California in December 1980, now 2000 square feet which allowed the space needed for all our watercolor originals; watercolor prints; animal watercolor prints, song bird prints; hummingbird prints; and butterfly prints, as well as Miss Kitty’s English Garden gift store. Her products will be included on our web site in June of this year. Then published by Gallery Classics, four paintings, for their collector plates, mallards, pintails, wood ducks, and green wing teal, a true limited edtion of only 15,000 each, selling out in one year. Also published by Pimpernel International of England, four series of six paintings each of song birds; waterfowl; butterflies; and hummingbirds. We also do art shows throughout Southern California.
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