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frozen or even sleeping. Under the graceful shapes is a tension that reminds you that the cats might spring or the frog might jump off his lily pad and back into the pond.
Mrs. Lewis came to Rappahannock County fourteen years ago after living in different parts of this country and others. Her formal art training began, and has continued at times over the years, in New York, at the Parsons School of Design and at the Whitney Art Students League.
In New York, New England, Europe and South America, Mrs. Lewis has continued working first as an industrial designer and then as a freelance sculptor for' over forty years. She also quilts, cooks and gardens extensively. “Everything you see or do, everything you draw - even as a commercial designer, everything you experience: it’s all grist for the mill.” she said.
Mrs. Lewis said that she’d been a commercial artist for several years before trying her hand as a sculptor. “I was back in New York and I went downstairs at the art school and saw the sculpture students working. Right away I knew that’s where I should be.”
Sculpture is a demanding art, sometimes dirty and grueling. The completion of a piece takes many months, and it’s not the type of thing you can work on by the fire at night or take with you on
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