Lowry's Boats Traditional vessels associated with Mounts Bay, Cornwall

PRESENTING TO THE WORLD “LOWRY’S BOATS - Paintings of Traditional Vessels Associated with Mounts Bay, Cornwall”.

Author: Roger Lowry

Publication Date: Dec 5, 2022

Language: English

ISBN: 9781910499962

Category: Art & Photography

Price: £15.99

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LOWRY’S BOATS reviews

Roger Lowry a Penzance resident, boat owner and a painter. He puts both passions in this book, his love of boats and his love of painting them. Roger has amassed numbers of boats in his paintings that have come and gone. Roger has inadvertently captured and recorded a body of work that is a national and local treasure, cataloguing the heritage of Penzance, Penwith, Cornwall; through his painting and art style which are vibrant in colours and with bold strokes. This is a gem for boat and history lovers.

Just got my copy of Lowry's Boats and can only recommend it. It's full of Roger's brightly coloured paintings that breathe life into these wonderful boats of all types and sizes. From Roger and Anne's own Fair Isle yoal, Sholgirse, to much bigger stuff such as the Waverley and Tenacious, this is both a fun-packed frolic as much as a serious study of many fine craft to bless the West Penwith shores. Glad to see my old Perseverance making two appearances..

Mike Smylie is a maritime historian concentrating on the fishing industry and working vessels. He has writes widely on the subject for publications including Classic Boat, The Boatman, Watercraft, Maritime Heritage, The Marine Quarterly, Maritime Life and Traditions, Fishing News and the European Maritime Heritage newsletter.

He is the author of over 20 published books.

He is a member of the Society for Nautical Research, the South West Maritime History Society, the Coble and Keelboat Society and the Anglesey Antiquarians. He is a co-founder of the 40+ Fishing Boat Association which was founded in 1995 against the background of the scrapping of decommissioned fishing vessels, and edits their thrice yearly magazine Fishing Boats.

Awesome received mine 2 days ago well worth the money full of detail paintings and a nice bit of boat history

Neil Burman traditional boat owner

AT LAST!! You should have been publishing such a long time ago. Nice to have some artistic talent recognised.

Pam Secker artist

Just received my copy of Lowry's Boats. Great work. Many Congratulations.

Roger Lowry's Facebook page is full of West Cornwall news, landscape, campaigns, pets, outrage & best of all: his paintings which are a joyful tonic in these troubled times for our planet & our country. At last, Roger has published many of his Mount's Bay maritime paintings in Lowry's Boats, Paintings of Traditional Vessels, Associated with Mount's Bay, Cornwall.  It is full of Roger's lively naive paintings: Mount's Bay & its boats, set against the background of the Mount, the Dock & St Mary's Church, Newlyn North Pier and the Prom. Many of these craft are familiar to locals, two Scillonians ancient and modern, the Trinity House ships Stella & Satellite, Jim Richards' famous old Pioneer, beautifully observed, and Les Rowe's Ocean Pride. St Piran rows his currach into Mount's Bay, HMS Pickle brings news of Trafalgar and Mr Ellis sails the Truelove, built of floor boards and boxes at the back of Camberwell Street in 1906. Several of the vessels are escorted by dolphins, dragons & monster mackerel. The book is a warm, evocative, colourful & lively reminder of Mount's Bay's story and boats

John McWilliams He is a volunteer at St Ives Archive & Penlee House Museum's photograph research group. In 2007 published Breton Fishermen in Cornwall & Brittany A CENTURY OF FRIENDSHIP, the result of several years' research into the story of his childhood friends. He has written many articles. In 2010 he was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorseth for his work in Cornish Maritime History. He chose the Bardic name Jowan, Cornish for John.

Fantastic Roger... Book looks great!

Judy Joel artist and secretary of ABNA

For Immediate Release:

If you would like more information about Roger Lowry, or to schedule an interview, please contact him via email: rogerlowryf13@gmail.com