Alan Lowndes (1921–1978) was a British painter known primarily for his scenes of northern life.
Lowndes was born in Heaton Norris, Lancashire,[1] a suburb of Stockport in 1921, the fifth child of a railway clerk.
He began to achieve success in the late 1950s and early 1960s in the period when northern writers such as Stan Barstow, John Braine and Alan Sillitoe were also coming to the fore.
[3] In 2021, the centenary of Lowndes’ birth was marked by an exhibition at the Crane Kalman Gallery, London.
In reviewing this exhibition David Nowell Smith of the University of East Anglia said “It’s time for Alan Lowndes to emerge from L.S.