Paul Lewin
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. Michael Jay
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 Cornwalland
Lundy Island off the Devon coast. These insular and peninsular
influences on his work are very much in evidence.
St Just-in-Penwith, September 2001
The Great Atlantic Galleries
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