Lewis Arts

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#FFCC80" TEXT="#080000" background="0455d423.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Batang" ><B>Lewis Arts</B><B>  </B></FONT><B>  </B><B> |    </B><I> </I><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lewis Arts"><U><I>home</I></U></A></div> <div> <I>Lewis Arts</I><I>   |   </I><A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Objectives"><U><I>Objectives</I></U></A><I>   |   </I><A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact"><U><I>Contact</I></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=216 BGCOLOR="#003300" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="0455d423.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="id12.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="woodwork"><U><IMG SRC="09ccc320.jpg" border=0 width="204" height="50" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id7.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Paintings 1"><U><IMG SRC="018ca340.jpg" border=0 width="202" height="52" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id8.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="paintings 2"><U><IMG SRC="028c82c0.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="44" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div>            <A HREF="id9.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="painting 3"><U><IMG SRC="041cc340.jpg" border=0 width="204" height="52" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id10.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="painting 4"><U><IMG SRC="053c82d0.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="45" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id13.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mahala art"><U><IMG SRC="0a3c7330.jpg" border=0 width="199" height="51" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="03f00c00egerdp.jpg"> <bR> <div> Artist's Statement:</div> <bR> <div> <B>I have done art in a serious manner, off and on, for the past 26 years, and in a more general way all of my life. In fact, some of my earliest art was my best, and I've seem to have grown worse with the years. I work mainly with traditional artist media, including oils, encaustic and casein. I sometimes make my own paints, varnish, size, gesso, and stretch my own canvas. I also do carpentry, including wood carving, finish carpentry, including frames, doors, and furniture of all kinds, as well as heavier construction jobs like framing, decks, and fences. I've also on occassion done photography, especially in ethnographic fieldwork, as well as some videography. I believe deeply in the holism of the aesthetic process and the value of the aesthetic experience, requiring a non-analytical approach to design development and execution of artwork. I am largely self-taught as an artist, though I've studied artists all my life, and have in my day derived inspiration from a number of different sources, including classical art and traditional non-European arts and crafts, artists of the Renaissance, Impressionist and Expressionist Art of the 19th Century, as well as modern abstract art of the 20th Century and contemporary art. I work largely in a spontaneous manner. I feel the source of art is in the soul of the artist, and this must find naive expression unencumbered by conventional expectations of style or form. My art has once been aptly described as "home-made." I've come to discover a basic symbology and syntax that runs recurrent thoughout my artwork, and I think this has its source in a deep-seated subconscious mythologia. In all my many constructions and wood-work, I've never worked from a plan or a drawn design. I enjoy the process of doing the art, and remain very open minded as to what subjects art should represent and in what manner they should be represented. I always sign my work simply "Hugh" and this reflects the simplicity with which I choose to lead my personal life.</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>                                                                                                                                        Hugh M. Lewis      <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>