PAUL LEWIN was born in Manchester in 1967. He completed a degree in Fine Art at Bristol Polytechnic in 1989 and after leaving college, lived in St. Just-in-Penwith in West Cornwall for 10 influencial years. He now lives in Bideford, Devon - another town with a richly stimulating landscape, but he maintains his links with West Cornwall. The coast and moorland areas of North Devon and Cornwall are a constant source of inspiration to him and he can often be found out painting in all weathers. He says that “capturing the sense of place amongst the constantly changing weather, light, tides and seasons” is his “challenge as a landscape painter”. Lewin has had work published in Dorling and Kindersley's ‘Art School’ series. He was involved in setting up an artists’ co-operative gallery in Penzance and was the Art Director at The Great Atlantic Map Works Gallery, in it’s first year, where his meticulous standards and intuitive artistic judgements formed the foundation for future developments at the gallery. Indeed, he was one of a small number of influential and talented artists who, through The Great Atlantic stimulated a growing reputation for high quality art in St Just-in-Penwith, Britain’s most westerly town. Lewin has achieved considerable success relatively early in his painting career and his works have been purchased for collections in the UK, USA, Germany, Mexico and the Far East. With each exhibition, his work continues to develop with maturity. Lewin is already an experienced exhibitor with innumerable mixed shows, including a 1998 show in London’s Cork Street, dedicated to Cornish contemporary art. His solo exhibitions include: Innocent Fine Art, Bristol; Oriel Plas Glyn y Weddw, North Wales; Nantucket Island, USA; Trelissick Gallery, Truro; Lyn Strover Gallery, Cambridge; The Great Atlantic Map Works Gallery, St Just-in-Penwith; Out of the Blue, Marazion; Gallery Tresco, Isles of Scilly and Dower House Gallery, Lostwithiel. Appropriately, his first solo show, in 1991, was in his home town St Just at ‘Visions and Journeys’- now ‘The Turn of the Tide’. Lewin’s subsequent 1997 and 1998 solo shows in that town at The Great Atlantic Map Works Gallery ‘Land into Sea - The Atlantic Peninsula’ and ‘Seizing the Day’ were highly successful and significant stepping stones in his career. Paul Lewin has benefited from periods of residency on Nantucket Island off the eastern seaboard of the USA and much more remote islands off the British coast - Bardsey Island off North Wales, Orkney Islands off Northern Scotland, Isles of Scilly off Cornwall and Lundy Island off the Devon coast. These insular and peninsular influences on his work are very much in evidence. Michael Jay St Just-in-Penwith, September 2001   Gurnards Head Cliff, Cornwall mixed media on paper 550 x 740mm 21" x 29"   Calm sea, morning light, Green Cliff, Devon mixed media on paper 570 x 760mm 22" x 30"   Gurnards Head Cove, Cornwall, July 2001 mixed media on paper 570 x 760mm 22" x 30"   Carn Veslan Cliff, Porthmeor, Cornwall mixed media on paper 550 x 740mm 21" x 29"   Botallack Headland, Cornwall mixed media on paper 550 x 740mm 21" x 29"   Below Porthmeor Cliff, Cornwall mixed media on paper 570 x 760mm 22" x 30"   Calm Sea, Porthmeor Cliff, Cornwall mixed media on paper 570 x 760mm 22" x 30”   South across Spekesmill mouth, Devon mixed media on paper 550 x 740mm 21" x 29"   Enys, Pendeen, Cornwall, June 2001 mixed media on paper 570 x 760mm 22" x 30”   June Hawthorn, Higher Trye, Cornwall mixed media on board 290 x 230mm 12" x 9"   Late sun, Porthmeor Point, Cornwall mixed media on paper 570 x 760mm 22" x 30"   Robin’s Rocks, Cornwall mixed media on paper 570 x 760mm 22" x 30"   Treen Cliffs, Cornwall mixed media on paper 570 x 760mm 22" x 30"   The Abbotsham Oak, Devon, August 2001 mixed media on paper 550 x 740mm 21" x 29"   Towan Beach, Cornwall, late sun mixed media on paper 550 x 740mm 21" x 29"   CLICK HERE to go back

Exhibition dates: 20th October - 11th November 2001

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