Honored three times at the Carmel Art Festival, and winner of the Monterey Plein Air Festival, Robert Lewis has been part of a number of painting competitions and exhibits across the nation. Lewis has had a long career in art as an illustrator, designer, and fine artist. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Academy Art Museum on the East Coast and is shown in several galleries. Before returning to his native California and taking up plein air landscape oil painting he worked in watercolor, scratchboard, paper sculpture, and acrylics, exhibiting his imaginative works.
Lewis has lived in nearly every region of the country from Alaska to the Deep South, from the California to Maryland. This variety of scenery has contributed to his long fascination with the enduring beauty of the landscape. Plein air painting is the perfect expression of his love of landscape and being in the landscape.
When painting en plein air Lewis paints in oil on canvas on location, finishing his paintings on site in a single sitting. His large-scale studio work is often based on his plein air work. He lives and works in Pacific Grove where he has a painting studio.
Galleries
Gallery Elite, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
Christopher Morgan Galleries, Palm Desert, California
Museums
Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland
Competitions
Carmel Art Festival, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
Plein Air Easton, Easton, Maryland
San Luis Obispo Plein Air, San Luis Obispo, California
Frank Bette Plein Air Competition, Alameda, California
“My California: Portals and People”, National Steinbeck Center
“The Passionate Landscape”, Le Beau Soleil Gallery
“Grace Your Walls”, Le Beau Soleil Gallery
“The Bordeaux Countryside”, Le Beau Soleil Gallery
“Farmlands, Wetlands: Landscapes of San Jose”, Stone Griffin Gallery, Campbell
“Sirens of the Garden”, Founder’s Choice Award
“The Colorful Coast: Landscapes of the Monterey Peninsula”, Le Beau Soleil Gallery
“Carmel Art Festival Plein Air Exhibit”, Honorable Mention, Carmel Art Festival
“See the Gift”, Le Beau Soleil Gallery, Holiday Show, 2004
“The Challenge of Plein Air”, Le Beau Soleil Gallery, October 2004
“Views of the Land: Plein Air Painters of the Monterey Peninsula”, Pebble Beach, September 2004
“Two Views”, Alvarado Gallery, Monterey
“2004 Monterey Plein Air Festival”, First Place Winner
“Carmel Art Festival 2003 Plein Air Competition”, Honorable Mention, Carmel
“Plein Air Sunscapes”, The Art House, Pacific Grove, CA
“Coyote Valley Artists”, Gallery Kiosk, San Jose, CA
