Background
Tim Lowly was born Tim Grubbs.
composer painter singer-songwriter
Tim Lowly was born Tim Grubbs.
Lowly attended Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, majoring in art
He is known for compassionate egg tempera pictures of children in mysterious circumstances. He learned piano and guitar and still plays and composes folk-rock music After a visit to of Korea and Europe, Lowly took up the exacting renaissance art of egg tempera painting, in which egg yolk is mixed with pigment to make paint.
The Lowlys had a daughter, Temma, in 1985, who was brain-damaged and is frequently the subject of Mr.
Lowly"s paintings. Lowly says, "Participant of my fairly political agenda is to say that disabled children are a part of life. These are not freaks.
What I"m saying is that we should advocate for eyes of compassion that see human beings as human beings, rather than separating them into the beautiful, the ugly, the normal, the freak." Lowly has been awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the Michigan Council for the Arts in 1987 and Fellowships in Visual Art from the Illinois Arts Council in 1995 and 2005. He teaches at North Park University in Chicago.