About Iris...
Iris Mes Low, a 3rd generation Dutch-born artist, has been painting for over 30 years. She is also an experienced muralist and illustrator.
In 1991, Mes Low made a permanent move to the West Coast of Canada where she continued studies in the Visual Arts at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC.
Mes Low’s art is a fluid and ever-changing exchange between the canvas and images of her subconscious. Her approach to landscape is one of tightening forms and accentuating the intensity of the environment — creating idealistic, utopic abstractions of the scene. Her trees take on human-like characteristics as they congregate against dawning skies and urban hubs of suburbia. Her style is achieved through various layers of thinly applied oil paint . Each layer shimmers through, forming her signature style.
Urbanization plays an essential role in her work. Finding the quiet, serene moments in a landscape. That moment when you are singular in a landscape, something that seldom happens in times of extreme population density.
Artists such as Dali, Hopper, Woods and contemporaries Penhall & Irving are among her inspirations. Over the years, her paintings have meandered into private collections in Europe, North & South America & Australia.
Member of Canadian Federation of Artists. Work is available through Vandop Gallery, New Westminster or Roamgallery.
The artist runs a B&B together with her family called The Messy Owl Inn in Likely BC, where you can enjoy her cooking and the amazing environment of the Cariboo wilderness.
cv available on request
In 1991, Mes Low made a permanent move to the West Coast of Canada where she continued studies in the Visual Arts at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC.
Mes Low’s art is a fluid and ever-changing exchange between the canvas and images of her subconscious. Her approach to landscape is one of tightening forms and accentuating the intensity of the environment — creating idealistic, utopic abstractions of the scene. Her trees take on human-like characteristics as they congregate against dawning skies and urban hubs of suburbia. Her style is achieved through various layers of thinly applied oil paint . Each layer shimmers through, forming her signature style.
Urbanization plays an essential role in her work. Finding the quiet, serene moments in a landscape. That moment when you are singular in a landscape, something that seldom happens in times of extreme population density.
Artists such as Dali, Hopper, Woods and contemporaries Penhall & Irving are among her inspirations. Over the years, her paintings have meandered into private collections in Europe, North & South America & Australia.
Member of Canadian Federation of Artists. Work is available through Vandop Gallery, New Westminster or Roamgallery.
The artist runs a B&B together with her family called The Messy Owl Inn in Likely BC, where you can enjoy her cooking and the amazing environment of the Cariboo wilderness.
cv available on request
Inclusion in Splash Auction Fundraiser for The Arts Umbrella, 2021 with exhibit at Gallery Pendulum, Vancouver, BC
PRESS“Art in the Garden” van Dop Gallery, New Westminster, BC May 2021
Interview with At Fourty Five Magazine with video 2021
Participant The Stride Arts Festival 2021
Co-author Pursuit 365, published March 2021
Inclusion in Splash Auction Fundraiser for The Arts Umbrella, 2020 with exhibit at Gallery Pendulum, Vancouver, BC
Participant Art Exhibition: Seeing/Being Seen online by 2020 Housing Central Conference 2020
Featured artist at Vandop Gallery during New West Cultural Crawl 2020, New Westminster, BC
Article in Art Vancouver 2020: Artist Interview Series: Iris Mes-Low and the Idealist Landscape by Nathan Durec
Participant Art Vancouver with Roam Gallery & Fresh Magazine
Painting “East Van” in Vancouver Sun, vancouver, BC
Inclusion in West Coast Artists! of the Imago Mundi Collection, Benetton, Hardcover book
"Enjoy a Range of Art at New Library" New Westminster Record
Portraits and Figures” Carolyn Edlund, Artsyshark Blog
"Iris Low, Intimate Colour Fields," Michel Corbin, ArtBookGuy Blog
"World Fine Art Professionals and their Key-Pieces, 10 - Iris Low
”This Is Now online art magazine, The Netherlands: “Marbella Marbella-Adelante! a safe haven of artså
PRESS“Art in the Garden” van Dop Gallery, New Westminster, BC May 2021
Interview with At Fourty Five Magazine with video 2021
Participant The Stride Arts Festival 2021
Co-author Pursuit 365, published March 2021
Inclusion in Splash Auction Fundraiser for The Arts Umbrella, 2020 with exhibit at Gallery Pendulum, Vancouver, BC
Participant Art Exhibition: Seeing/Being Seen online by 2020 Housing Central Conference 2020
Featured artist at Vandop Gallery during New West Cultural Crawl 2020, New Westminster, BC
Article in Art Vancouver 2020: Artist Interview Series: Iris Mes-Low and the Idealist Landscape by Nathan Durec
Participant Art Vancouver with Roam Gallery & Fresh Magazine
Painting “East Van” in Vancouver Sun, vancouver, BC
Inclusion in West Coast Artists! of the Imago Mundi Collection, Benetton, Hardcover book
"Enjoy a Range of Art at New Library" New Westminster Record
Portraits and Figures” Carolyn Edlund, Artsyshark Blog
"Iris Low, Intimate Colour Fields," Michel Corbin, ArtBookGuy Blog
"World Fine Art Professionals and their Key-Pieces, 10 - Iris Low
”This Is Now online art magazine, The Netherlands: “Marbella Marbella-Adelante! a safe haven of artså