Alban Low
@albanlow.bsky.social
artist / jazz cover art / sketching and drawing / Director at Sampson Low publishers / radio presenter / naturally curious
Quick sketches from an evening of Poem Brut featuring expansive literary performances from staff, students and alumni of @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social + guests at the Town House. More on the Art of Jazz blog at artofjazz.blogspot.com/2025/10/poem... #poembrut #poetry #sketch #ink #drawing #art
October 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Quick sketches from an evening of Poem Brut featuring expansive literary performances from staff, students and alumni of @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social + guests at the Town House. More on the Art of Jazz blog at artofjazz.blogspot.com/2025/10/poem... #poembrut #poetry #sketch #ink #drawing #art
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@smallpublishers.bsky.social Haul! I 'Flight Paths' by @ggaffa.bsky.social/@nightjarpress.bsky.social , NaoKo TakaHashi' & @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social 'Blabbermind' by Andrew Kotting, @susiecampbell.bsky.social & @guillemotpress.bsky.social ,SJ Fowler/ Sampson Low. Fantastic reading from all 🔥🔥🔥
October 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
@smallpublishers.bsky.social Haul! I 'Flight Paths' by @ggaffa.bsky.social/@nightjarpress.bsky.social , NaoKo TakaHashi' & @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social 'Blabbermind' by Andrew Kotting, @susiecampbell.bsky.social & @guillemotpress.bsky.social ,SJ Fowler/ Sampson Low. Fantastic reading from all 🔥🔥🔥
Sketches from brilliant solo sets at Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music in the The Lit & Phil ‘Members Library’. First Raymond MacDonald's zesty desire lines, followed by Neil Charles on double bass, with his thrilling Ellington stepping stones. artofjazz.blogspot.com/2025/10/raym...
October 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Sketches from brilliant solo sets at Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music in the The Lit & Phil ‘Members Library’. First Raymond MacDonald's zesty desire lines, followed by Neil Charles on double bass, with his thrilling Ellington stepping stones. artofjazz.blogspot.com/2025/10/raym...
Sketches from the Tea House Theatre Jazz Jam in Vauxhall. A first visit for me, absolutely loved it. More sketches at artofjazz.blogspot.com/2025/10/tea-... including those of Ben Gasiglia, Benet McLean, Rio Kai and Eric Ford. Next jam Tuesday, October 14, 2025 #jazz #drawing #art #sketch #vauxhall
October 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Looking forward to co-judging the poetry submissions for @walklistencreate.org. The anthologies are beautifully illustrated by @albanlow.bsky.social - a real treat
🖋️ Enter our Walking “In the Dark” competition! Stories or poems ≤250 words. Winners: writers-in-residence, € cash prize, artwork, limited chapbook. Shortlisted: published & showcase reading.
Deadline📅 20 Oct | 💻
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Deadline📅 20 Oct | 💻
wlc.zone/dark
September 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Looking forward to co-judging the poetry submissions for @walklistencreate.org. The anthologies are beautifully illustrated by @albanlow.bsky.social - a real treat
Small Worlds is back at the Hans Falcks Hus, Ved Slottet 27, Aabenraa, Denmark from 6 July - 31 Aug 2025. Eskild Beck has invited artists from Italy, Germany, England, and local artists to create miniature worlds to fire up the imagination. I'm exhibiting 4 of my quirky Silo Worlds. #art #sculpture
July 7, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Small Worlds is back at the Hans Falcks Hus, Ved Slottet 27, Aabenraa, Denmark from 6 July - 31 Aug 2025. Eskild Beck has invited artists from Italy, Germany, England, and local artists to create miniature worlds to fire up the imagination. I'm exhibiting 4 of my quirky Silo Worlds. #art #sculpture
Our homage to the Swedish Flat Pack at the European Poetry Festival. Natalie and I had an absolute blast, so many fab performances and a generous free spirited audience to support us youtu.be/df5smHbA3M0?... Thank you to SJ Fowler and @europeanpoetryfest.bsky.social for the opportunity #poetry
Alban Low and Natalie Low : Sweden - European Poetry Festival 2025
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July 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Our homage to the Swedish Flat Pack at the European Poetry Festival. Natalie and I had an absolute blast, so many fab performances and a generous free spirited audience to support us youtu.be/df5smHbA3M0?... Thank you to SJ Fowler and @europeanpoetryfest.bsky.social for the opportunity #poetry
Come down tonight (Friday), Natalie and I perform at the European Poetry Festival #EPF2025, 7pm Free Entry, Kingston University Town House, Top Floor Café Corner. We celebrate the Flat Pack, perhaps Sweden's greatest invention (after Dynamite and the Adjustable Wrench) www.europeanpoetryfestival.com
July 4, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Come down tonight (Friday), Natalie and I perform at the European Poetry Festival #EPF2025, 7pm Free Entry, Kingston University Town House, Top Floor Café Corner. We celebrate the Flat Pack, perhaps Sweden's greatest invention (after Dynamite and the Adjustable Wrench) www.europeanpoetryfestival.com
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📜 NOW ANNOUNCING: EUROPEAN POETRY FESTIVAL 2025
This summer, pairs of European poets visiting and based in the UK are creating and performing brand new works at events in London, Norwich, and Liverpool
Interested? See below for event details 👇
This summer, pairs of European poets visiting and based in the UK are creating and performing brand new works at events in London, Norwich, and Liverpool
Interested? See below for event details 👇
May 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
📜 NOW ANNOUNCING: EUROPEAN POETRY FESTIVAL 2025
This summer, pairs of European poets visiting and based in the UK are creating and performing brand new works at events in London, Norwich, and Liverpool
Interested? See below for event details 👇
This summer, pairs of European poets visiting and based in the UK are creating and performing brand new works at events in London, Norwich, and Liverpool
Interested? See below for event details 👇
Been busy scanning suitcases of family photos. This is my 2x Great Grandfather, Richard Cadbury Barrow (1827-1894), who was the Mayor of #Birmingham in 1888. His cousin, John Cadbury, transferred the family tea/coffee business to him in 1849, so he could concentrate on the manufacture of chocolate!
May 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Been busy scanning suitcases of family photos. This is my 2x Great Grandfather, Richard Cadbury Barrow (1827-1894), who was the Mayor of #Birmingham in 1888. His cousin, John Cadbury, transferred the family tea/coffee business to him in 1849, so he could concentrate on the manufacture of chocolate!
Sketches from the iyatraQuartet's uplifting album launch @citylit.bsky.social. My fave song is Beatriz, which was inspired by trobairitz (female troubadour) Beatritz de Dia. It was sung brilliantly in #Occitan by George Sleightholme. More sketches and info here artofjazz.blogspot.com/2025/05/iyat...
May 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Sketches from the iyatraQuartet's uplifting album launch @citylit.bsky.social. My fave song is Beatriz, which was inspired by trobairitz (female troubadour) Beatritz de Dia. It was sung brilliantly in #Occitan by George Sleightholme. More sketches and info here artofjazz.blogspot.com/2025/05/iyat...
No drawing today but here's all the little sketches I did while sitting in the café Le Recepteur. It was a great place to sketch the local characters. Thank you to everyone who offered support over the past two weeks, I've had limited access to the Internet so will go back and read everything #paris
May 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
No drawing today but here's all the little sketches I did while sitting in the café Le Recepteur. It was a great place to sketch the local characters. Thank you to everyone who offered support over the past two weeks, I've had limited access to the Internet so will go back and read everything #paris
One last walk very early this morning before I jump on a Eurostar. It included the aftermath of the crazy ice storm yesterday, with leaves everywhere, dead pigeons in the street, Jesus Loves You socks, and one final look at the Eiffel Tower. Walk with me at youtu.be/yZBv43_PqsA #Paris
Notre-Dame d’Auteuil - Walk 73
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May 4, 2025 at 7:09 AM
One last walk very early this morning before I jump on a Eurostar. It included the aftermath of the crazy ice storm yesterday, with leaves everywhere, dead pigeons in the street, Jesus Loves You socks, and one final look at the Eiffel Tower. Walk with me at youtu.be/yZBv43_PqsA #Paris
It's a one person lift here in the building. I get glimpses of the people using it through the little narrow window. There was a big storm today, with hail, and shards of ice that knocked the leaves off the trees and killed a few pigeons. #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #Paris #lift #voyeur
May 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I headed to the Pont Mirabeau this morning, the Seine was flat as a pancake, calm and serene. As usual a typically obscure dip into 1960s showbiz, including the actress who played Tante Georgette in the educational US TV series French in Action. Walk with me youtu.be/1btPehbZGoA #Paris #PontMirabeau
Pont Mirabeau - Walk 72
YouTube video by Alban Low
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May 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I headed to the Pont Mirabeau this morning, the Seine was flat as a pancake, calm and serene. As usual a typically obscure dip into 1960s showbiz, including the actress who played Tante Georgette in the educational US TV series French in Action. Walk with me youtu.be/1btPehbZGoA #Paris #PontMirabeau
These two were having so much fun, while everyone else seemed to be getting photos taken on the Pont de Bir-Hakeim their shouts echoed along the whole length of the bridge. #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #Paris #cycling #freespirit
May 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
These two were having so much fun, while everyone else seemed to be getting photos taken on the Pont de Bir-Hakeim their shouts echoed along the whole length of the bridge. #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #Paris #cycling #freespirit
Wandered down to the Seine, the Pont de Bir-Hakeim was beautiful in the dawn light. Then I found the tinkling home of René Urtreger, whose dexterous digits you can hear on the improvised soundtrack for Louis Malle’s 1958 masterpiece Ascenseur pour l’échafaud. youtu.be/vCd7qUmy6CY #Paris
Parc de Passy - Walk 70
YouTube video by Alban Low
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May 2, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Wandered down to the Seine, the Pont de Bir-Hakeim was beautiful in the dawn light. Then I found the tinkling home of René Urtreger, whose dexterous digits you can hear on the improvised soundtrack for Louis Malle’s 1958 masterpiece Ascenseur pour l’échafaud. youtu.be/vCd7qUmy6CY #Paris
Sweeper on the backstairs in Rue des Vignes. A quiet day here.
I'll cook myself a nice dinner and have a chat with Nat.
Two more full days left, from a difficult start the days now have been flying by. #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #Paris #mayday #reflection #thinking
I'll cook myself a nice dinner and have a chat with Nat.
Two more full days left, from a difficult start the days now have been flying by. #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #Paris #mayday #reflection #thinking
May 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Sweeper on the backstairs in Rue des Vignes. A quiet day here.
I'll cook myself a nice dinner and have a chat with Nat.
Two more full days left, from a difficult start the days now have been flying by. #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #Paris #mayday #reflection #thinking
I'll cook myself a nice dinner and have a chat with Nat.
Two more full days left, from a difficult start the days now have been flying by. #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #Paris #mayday #reflection #thinking
On each walk I like to choose which house I'd like to live in. Today it was Virginia Vee's apartment, we know her as Virginia Peters, one third of the American vocal trio The Peters Sisters. Her pad is opposite the Jardins du Trocadéro with a view of the Eiffel Tower. youtu.be/DD3vUxE2_ZQ #Paris
Musée Clemenceau - Walk 71
YouTube video by Alban Low
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May 1, 2025 at 7:59 AM
On each walk I like to choose which house I'd like to live in. Today it was Virginia Vee's apartment, we know her as Virginia Peters, one third of the American vocal trio The Peters Sisters. Her pad is opposite the Jardins du Trocadéro with a view of the Eiffel Tower. youtu.be/DD3vUxE2_ZQ #Paris
My room here is 3 floors up and opens onto a quiet inner courtyard. My desk is beside the window and as I look out in the morning I can see a mum brushing a child's unruly hair and usually a man pops up in his boxer shorts. I suppose it's the same sight wherever you are in the world. #art #Paris
April 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
My morning walk around Boulainvilliers took me from Ye-ye singers to a member of the intelligence network Le Musée de l’Homme, a resistance group created by intellectuals and academics during WW2. Watch here for some fabulous keystone busts too youtu.be/TCGCgUOGMok?... #Paris
Boulainvilliers - Walk 68
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April 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
My morning walk around Boulainvilliers took me from Ye-ye singers to a member of the intelligence network Le Musée de l’Homme, a resistance group created by intellectuals and academics during WW2. Watch here for some fabulous keystone busts too youtu.be/TCGCgUOGMok?... #Paris
Awning Shadow 11am Pastis.
I'm out tonight at the Chaillot Théâtre national de la Danse, just on the Trocadero. Going to see a showcase of students doing contemporary Jazz dance, chamber music, opera, and impromptu theatre. #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #Paris #cafe #pastis #shadow #heatwave
I'm out tonight at the Chaillot Théâtre national de la Danse, just on the Trocadero. Going to see a showcase of students doing contemporary Jazz dance, chamber music, opera, and impromptu theatre. #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #Paris #cafe #pastis #shadow #heatwave
April 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Around the Théâtre du Ranelagh are the homes of directors Claude Chabrol, the "French Hitchcock" and Marcel Camus, who jazz lovers like me will know for his film Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus). The smells of the bakeries are so divine when I'm walking around 7am. Film is here youtu.be/ygGy0Rz0luE
Théâtre du Ranelagh - Walk 67
YouTube video by Alban Low
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April 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Around the Théâtre du Ranelagh are the homes of directors Claude Chabrol, the "French Hitchcock" and Marcel Camus, who jazz lovers like me will know for his film Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus). The smells of the bakeries are so divine when I'm walking around 7am. Film is here youtu.be/ygGy0Rz0luE
This morning on the Avenue de Versailles I saw a woman walking to work with a cat on her shoulders. So I couldn't resist doing a sketch. It's been a lovely day, I walked up to the Trocadero this afternoon, and sat in the park. #dailysketch #art #drawing #sketch #Paris #cafe #cat #dog
April 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
On my walk today I saw the Berlin Wall (or a slice of it), the Statue of Liberty (or a 1/4 scale version), and the Eiffel Tower. I started at the Radio France, which I visited last night for a concert (Mendelssohn and Schumann), and ended on the Île aux Cygnes. Watch here - youtu.be/EhpRUM0exmU?...
Maison de la Radio et de la Musique (Radio France) - Walk 63
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April 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
On my walk today I saw the Berlin Wall (or a slice of it), the Statue of Liberty (or a 1/4 scale version), and the Eiffel Tower. I started at the Radio France, which I visited last night for a concert (Mendelssohn and Schumann), and ended on the Île aux Cygnes. Watch here - youtu.be/EhpRUM0exmU?...