The Guildford Art Society: Artists : Celia Lewis

Welsummer Cockerel - watercolour - 38 x 40 cm

Guineafowl Running - watercolour - 50 x 50 cm

Sea Theme - watercolour - 45 x 45 cm

CELIA LEWIS was born in 1948, has lived all her life in Surrey and studied life and portrait charcoal drawing with Signorina Simi in Florence . Latterly she has been a regular member of The Studio in Tongham. She is also a member of several local Art Societies and has held various exhibitions in Surrey . She also exhibits annually with the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour at the Mall Galleries, London and with the Royal Watercolour Society at Bankside.

Although she also paints with pastels and acrylics, watercolours are her first love and she finds her subject matter in her own garden where she keeps chickens and guineafowl which lend themselves to her figurative surreal style. She has recently co-written a book ‘Keeping Chickens’ published in April 07 by David & Charles, which includes various artistic uses for feathers and painted eggs as well as hen care, and is working on a Poultry Directory covering 100 breeds of pure bred hens with watercolour illustrations to be published in 2010.

Celia is also a glass engraver producing sandblasted and drill engraved glass in her own unique style with particular emphasis on natural subjects such as leaves and feathers.

• Aquarius Award, Guiuldford Art Society
• AJS Open Award, Guildford Art Society
• RI Medal, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour
• Raymond Krish Prize, Farnham Art Society
• Joe Acheson Award for Watercolour & Gouache, Farnham Art Society

 

contact:celiavlewis@talk21.com

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