Edward Lewis

First thing, most days, a session or two of sketchy drawings in the small pad I carry while I'm out jogging, reminds me what is most important, the starting all over again each morning.

A succession of extraneous activities might follow (cleaning, gardening or shopping) which will build up to, by boredom or urgency, and may even somehow 'inform' what I will be doing later with a paint brush. I often like to work in the quiet of the night, at home or in the studio, or plein air on a fine day.

I alternate between painting abstract and figurative; each aids or relieves the other.

Abstract painting for me, now, is about process rather than design: 'virtual reality, I'll call it'. How I start a painting is key to what happens, and then who I am, how I'm feeling and what day it is etc. : temperament. The subjects which I like to draw, using black chalk or pencil, are all around; but to give them fresh life in oil paint is no easy matter just yet.

I am largely self-taught, self-directed; I benefitted from one year post-university at the Slade, in 1960, and have attended one or two short painting courses since. I have had one solo exhibition, which I called 'art-biographical', in 2006 of drawings and paintings spanning 50 years.

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