In 1972, the artist L.S. Lowry, then in his 80s and a “reluctant celebrity”, sat down in his living room for an interview with a young fan, said James Jackson in The Times. It was meant to be a ...
The celebrated painter liked to call himself a simple man who created his work with simple materials. In 1957, he showed the BBC how he built up his pictures of industrial urban life from his ...
All the little figures. It’s like a disease. You can’t stop it.” These are the words of the painter LS Lowry, discussing the compulsion that led him obsessively to depict the spindly hordes of the ...
An insight into the secretive 'matchstick men' painter as he guides us through his revealing life story in unheard interviews from the end of his life, lip-synced by Ian McKellen. Show more The story ...
Sir Ian McKellen portrays LS Lowry "through his own voice" in a new BBC documentary by drawing upon previously unbroadcast material recorded by the celebrated artist near the end of his life. The Lord ...