PROJECT78
 

At 79 years of age the new paintings of Garth Lewis are a distillation of a career spent researching colour theory. The paintings on show at Project 78 draw on this experience/knowledge, they continue to be process driven employing a structure (grid) on which to hang these experiments/investigations. In the past Lewis has often worked digitally employing software to mix the colours, and he would argue that the painterly process is similar, except that the paintings are more intuition than logic.

 

In these new paintings Lewis appears to undermine the structure. This might be seen as confusing, but in fact this apparent breakdown (?) makes the viewer question the apparent beauty and lyricism, in the act of affirming it. This seems pertinent in 2025.

 

 

BIO

Garth Lewis lives and works in Hastings. After studying at Hornsey College of Art London he took a Master of Arts at the University of New Mexico and a Master of Fine Arts at Queens College, City University of New York. In addition to his extensive career as a painter he also taught Colour and Visual Studies at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London where he undertook research into colour, computing and painting. The research lead to the development of Chromafile, a paint based colour palette and the award-winning publication 2000 Colour Combinations published by Batsford.

 

IMAGE - Garth Lewis: Untitled.4.25’ acryllic on canvas. © Garth Lewis