cd lewis

CD Lewis is a British artist who explores the interdependency of humans and Nature, the vibrations of matter, the essence of human experience.

Fictive, poetic, powerful.

CD Lewis's paintings are instantaneously abstract, landscape and a state of mind.

She draws from the real world and creates something that takes on a life of its own in the canvas world.

In the studio with painter’s mind alongside the muscle memory of a dancer, and, in the realisation that to be human is to be vital, complex and as in the Nature that surrounds us; is a temporary arrangement.

CD Lewis avoids explicit storytelling and instead relies on the subtleties and illusions to create an ambiguous and layered narrative.

CD Lewis's draws inspiration from a wide range of sources often using existing images taken from an archive of resources curated on her travels, life as a professional dancer and painter.

Painting with a quiet, considered voice, this studio practice of thinking about the notions of perception, trying to pin down that wobbly place of liminal time , what she calls the “wah-wah” moment.

With a deliberate focus on ambiguity and the power of suggestion she allows herself to be guided by the materiality of the oil paint and her mind’s eye, this can often be very slow, some paintings can take a few weeks, others months even years.

- 2025