Lot 9 , Garth Lewis, (b.1945), Svitato, 2006-08, acrylic paint on printed canvas, 158 x 114 cm

Garth Lewis
(b.1945)
Svitato, 2006-08
acrylic paint on printed canvas
158 x 114 cm
£3,500-4,500
Garth Lewis is a British painter and colour specialist who combines the digital with the hand made in exuberant and expressive paintings. He applies paint to fabric that has been printed with his own intricate computer-generated composition, with the result that foreground and background interweave. Line, colour, printing, painting, scanned images and abstract shapes together create a dynamic colour space and a rich pictorial identity. And here, in Svitato (Italian for ‘crazy-wild’), he deploys this technique to achieve a riotous sense of joy.

Lewis has exhibited in the United Kingdom, Europe, Japan and the United States. Educated at Hornsey College of Art, London, the University of New Mexico and Queens College, City University of New York, USA, he was Senior Lecturer teaching Colour and Visual Studies at Central St Martins, University of the Arts London, until 2011. He lives and works in Hastings.

He is the author of 2000 Colour Combinations, published by Pavilion Books, 2009 and was awarded the Prix Prisme 2011 for the French edition, presented by Academie de la Couleur, Bordeaux.