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esourcefulness mixed with originality and unrestrained creativity is the foundation of what is depicted in David Lowe’s artwork. Introducing a new concept called Tile Art, Lowe is truly onto something in the art world that is anything but ordinary. By using a medium of glass, oil and ceramic tiles, he has managed to create a fascinating scope of 3-D art work that instantly captures his audience’s attention. At the Art for the Parks event held earlier this year, Lowe displayed a number of his prized works, leaving one gentleman to comment that his work was “an exhibition in and of itself.” Tile Art is a fairly new concept
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that Lowe began to explore two years ago when the recession began to adversely affect his tiling business called Light Impressions in Marsh Harbour. But like many things in life, there’s bound to be a silver lining at the end of every dark cloud. It was during those hard times that Lowe found his. Instead of disposing of the broken tiles, he saved them and began to incorporate them into artwork. The result was phenomenal. His artistic abilities, colour-matching skills and aesthetic expertise have definitely assisted him in more ways than one. He could never have imagined that the tiles he used to beautify people’s homes are the same material he now uses in his artwork to bring about the same effect.