cd lewis

The core of my practice is about the experience of discovering and explaining the real world.

With the intention of drawing from the real world and creating something that takes on a life of its own in the canvas world.

Working with the body and mind of a painter, dancer, in the realisation that to be human is to be vital, complex, and as in the Nature that surrounds us: a temporary arrangement.

This is why I try to capture the blur; its distilling of movement, with marks gestural and other—this makes sense to me.

In the studio, with these complexities in mind I start painting.

As a ‘jump-off’ point I refer to either a life study, image, text or object taken from an archive of resources, curated on my travels, and life as a painter, and  professional dancer.

Painting with a quiet, considered voice using oil paint, this studio process of thinking about the notions of perception in trying to pin down that wobbly place of liminal time, what I call the ‘wah-wah’ moment.

I let myself be guided by the materiality of the paint and my mind’s eye, this can often be very slow, some paintings can take a few weeks others a few months even years.

— CD Lewis, 2024