The great architect Norman Foster — aka Lord Foster of Thames Bank — chooses a Lowry given to him as a present by his wife.
Norman Foster on ‘A Lancashire Village’ by L.S. Lowry
‘I first fell under the spell of Lowry’s paintings as a teenager, when I had to prepare a portfolio for entry to university to study architecture. I remember doing a work in gouache in his style – in retrospect, it was highly derivative. I have since realised that, uniquely,…