Rebecca Lowell Art “Let what you do be what you love.” Rumi
Rebecca Lowell arrived on Maui nearly two decades ago, from her home in rural northern California. Not long after, with just $78 left, she checked into the Bungalow, an $11-a-night hostel in Wailuku, Maui’s county seat – and started to paint. After a week she had enough paintings and hitchhiked across the island to Lahaina’s weekly art fair.
Today, after years of success in galleries across Maui, she has her own – Rebecca Lowell Fine Art – on the beach-walk at Ka’anapali Bay. There, she paints and offers her original paintings, giclée prints and photographs – wide-ranging work from elegant photographs of Maui’s tropical flowers and beaches to oil paintings of world-renowned Pu’u keka’a (“Black Rock”) on Ka’anapali Beach. She also creates playful abstract paintings featuring words and wisdom from around the world.
She’s especially proud of her partnerships with four Maui landmarks – a beachfront, open air gallery at The Ka’anapali Beach Hotel (known as “Hawaii’s most Hawaiian resort”), works placed in the historic Kula Hospital in Upcountry Maui (designed in the 1930s by famed Hawaiian architect Charles W. Dickey), the Maui Ocean Center, where she was the guest artist on their opening day, and a gallery location at the Maui Tropical Plantation where her art is on display around the plantation grounds as well as in the gallery featuring her fine art prints.
Rebecca studied photography in Germany, calligraphy and design in California and art in Hawaii. Before pursuing art full time she raised two children, Steve and Ann, and developed a small design and fashion business that eventually produced hand-painted clothing for Nordstrom’s and Hawaii’s Crazy Shirts.
Her creative expression has evolved over the years, ranging from textile designs, landscapes and seascapes in oils, colorful abstract acrylics and mixed media works, to her latest passion: seeking beauty with her digital camera in hand. She rises before dawn to catch the magnificent ocean swells brought in on a passing storm, and on other days wanders the floral splendors of Maui Tropical Plantation gardens in pursuit of the perfect plumeria.
She believes in following her heart and trusting her intuition as it leads her to places where she feels very creative and the most at home. Whether with paintbrush or camera in hand, her spirit shines through, reminding us to appreciate life and the beauty that is all around us.