THE ARTISTS

Austin & Lida Lowrey

Austin & Lida Lowrey

Austin & Lida Lowrey

Artists, designers & a life in San Miguel

Artists, designers & a life in San Miguel

Artists, designers & a life in San Miguel

For Austin and Lida Lowrey, art was never separate from daily life. Both trained as artists and designers, they built creative lives spanning painting, graphic design, teaching, museums and a shared fascination with the visual world.


That life eventually brought them and their daughters, Elizabeth and Sheridan, to San Miguel de Allende—where art, architecture, family and home became deeply intertwined.”

For Austin and Lida Lowrey, art was never separate from daily life. Both trained as artists and designers, they built creative lives spanning painting, graphic design, teaching, museums and a shared fascination with the visual world.


That life eventually brought them and their daughters, Elizabeth and Sheridan, to San Miguel de Allende—where art, architecture, family and home became deeply intertwined.”

For Austin and Lida Lowrey, art was never separate from daily life. Both trained as artists and designers, they built creative lives spanning painting, graphic design, teaching, museums and a shared fascination with the visual world.


That life eventually brought them and their daughters, Elizabeth and Sheridan, to San Miguel de Allende—where art, architecture, family and home became deeply intertwined.”

TWO CREATIVE LIVES

TWO CREATIVE LIVES

TWO CREATIVE LIVES

Austin Lowrey

Austin’s career moved between graphic design, teaching and fine art. After graduate study in painting and printmaking, he spent much of his professional life as a designer and educator, eventually joining the College of Design at North Carolina State University, where he helped shape its graphic design program and later retired as Professor Emeritus.


His later paintings and collages brought together many of the interests that had followed him throughout his life—abstraction and geometry, typography and language, literature, humor and the unexpected relationships between ordinary things.

Lida Lowrey

Lida’s creative life was equally varied. Trained in graphic design, she worked in design, museums and the arts before ultimately devoting herself fully to painting. Her paintings moved between abstraction and representation and were exhibited in the United States and Mexico.

THEIR SAN MIGUEL

THEIR SAN MIGUEL

THEIR SAN MIGUEL

San Miguel de Allende opened a new chapter for Austin and Lida and their daughters.

Before Austin and Lida built the remarkable home and studios where they would later live and work at Los Senderos, there was Casa de los Tíos.

The historic house on Canal became the Lowrey family’s home in Centro—a place for Austin, Lida, Elizabeth and Sheridan to return to, gather and experience San Miguel together.

It was the beginning of a family connection to the city that continues today.

San Miguel de Allende opened a new chapter for Austin and Lida and their daughters.

Before Austin and Lida built the remarkable home and studios where they would later live and work at Los Senderos, there was Casa de los Tíos.

The historic house on Canal became the Lowrey family’s home in Centro—a place for Austin, Lida, Elizabeth and Sheridan to return to, gather and experience San Miguel together.

It was the beginning of a family connection to the city that continues today.

CASA DE LOS TÍOS

CASA DE LOS TÍOS

CASA DE LOS TÍOS

Casa de los Tíos has its own family story.

The house takes its name—“House of the Uncles”—from two beloved uncles, one from each side of the family. Austin and Lida each received an inheritance from their respective uncle and chose to combine those funds to purchase the house on Canal, creating a family home in the heart of San Miguel.

Casa de los Tíos has its own family story.

The house takes its name—“House of the Uncles”—from two beloved uncles, one from each side of the family. Austin and Lida each received an inheritance from their respective uncle and chose to combine those funds to purchase the house on Canal, creating a family home in the heart of San Miguel.

It became a place for Austin, Lida and their daughters, Elizabeth and Sheridan, to gather and experience the city together. Over time, the family’s creative life became part of the house itself.

Original paintings by Austin and Lida hang throughout the rooms alongside art and objects collected over many years. Lida’s paintings remain particularly visible in the dining room and fireplace room.

Their daughter Sheridan Lowrey, an artist herself, continues to bring her own artistic eye to the house. Her hand can be seen in the thoughtful arrangement of her parents’ paintings, the family’s collections, furnishings and objects gathered over time.

The result is a home that feels collected rather than decorated—personal, layered and unmistakably connected to the family who has inhabited it.

Their daughter Sheridan Lowrey, an artist herself, continues to bring her own artistic eye to the house. Her hand can be seen in the thoughtful arrangement of her parents’ paintings, the family’s collections, furnishings and objects gathered over time.

The result is a home that feels collected rather than decorated—personal, layered and unmistakably connected to the family who has inhabited it.

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A HOME FOR ART

Austin and Lida’s relationship with San Miguel eventually led them beyond Centro to Los Senderos, where they created a striking modern home and studios designed around the way they wanted to live and make art.

There, studios, living spaces, landscape and art became part of a single environment. Lida spent the later years of her life painting there, while Austin continued painting and making collages well into his nineties.

Their San Miguel story spans two very different homes: the historic family house on Canal and the contemporary artist’s home at Los Senderos. Different in architecture and purpose, both reflect something fundamental about their lives—the idea that art and the way we live need not be separate things.