Profile
During the 1970's Gordon became acquainted with Carl Cheek and Jack Patterson of the Royal College of Art, London, with whom he would go out to the industrial sites and canals on Manchester and Salford (Lowrey's home city). It was mainly industrial scenery that formed the basis of Gordon's earlier works, followed by gloriously rich and luminescent still life paintings.
Gordon was influenced in the 1980's by the work of East Anglian artist Edward Seago and painted many Norfolk land and seascapes. During this period, Gordon's primary inspirations after Norfolk were coastal scenes around the British Isles and his great passion for Venice.