Google has celebrated the 125th birthday of English artist LS Lowry with a Google Doodle painting on its homepage.

LS Lowry, Google Doodle
A Google tribute to LS Lowry (Picture: Google)

The internet search engine giant has replaced its traditional logo with a watercolour created in Lowry’s distinctively simple style.

Stretford-born artist Lowry, who died in 1976, is famous for his paintings depicting life in the industrial districts of north-west England in the mid-20th century.

A lot of his work covered nearby Salford and the town of Pendlebury in Greater Manchester where he lived for over 40 years.

Lowry often populated his work with ‘matchstick men’, while his use of basic colours is also reflected in Google’s latest doodle

Google regularly changes its homepage logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries and the lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists.

Events covered include St Patrick’s Day and the Chinese New Year, while the lives of famous artists and scientists including Andy Warhol, Albert Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci have also been remembered.

The first Google Doodle was created in 1998 when Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page switched the company’s logo to indicate their attendance at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.