Hiroko Lewis
Japanese artist Hiroko Lewis is based in Sussex, where she creates semi-abstract mindscapes inspired by her local environment.
After graduating with a degree in Fine Art from Kanazawa College of Art, she pursued a career as artist, porcelain pattern designer, and illustrator in Japan, where she exhibited widely, including at the prestigious National Art Centre in Tokyo.
Her work has been displayed at various venues including the ING Discerning Eye and SWA at the Mall Galleries in London, the Kimberly Clark corporate HQ, and a number of Brighton Artists Open House festivals. Resonance, a major commission executed in oil, metal leaf, and patination for law firm Cripps LLC, was completed in February 2017. Comprising ten panels, and measuring 1.5m x 5m, it fills the lobby at their Tunbridge Wells offices.
Hiroko is represented by Forest Gallery in Petworth and For Arts Sake in Ealing.
Keith Pettit
Enchanted Place
‘This engraving not only captures magical winter light in one of those secret ghylls that cut through the landscape of the Ashdown Forest but, more importantly, it transports me back to when my son, still at Primary School and I would go for a weekly walk in the Forest, and we’d chat about his day, about our dreams for our futures, about his sister, his larks with his mates, his frustrations with life, we’d look for evidence of the past hands that had shaped the land, showing him how to spot the old hearths of charcoal kilns and we’d often sit on the bench outside Colemans Hatch Cricket Pavilion and do battle with his latest school reading book. Searingly precious moments to me, I still relive over and over in my memory.’ Keith Pettit