Garth Lewis – Paintfull Colour

Garth’s paintings have incorporated digital printing, direct printing and hand painting in the same picture.

“For me, creating stand alone, digital prints is ‘painting’ by other means, and in a format that is accessible to a broader audience. Figure/ground relationships are explored when painted shapes and marks are added to a surface of printed images; they interweave: foreground with background, line and colour, printing and painting, scanned images and abstract shapes, to create a dynamic colour space and a rich metaphorical, pictorial identity. Digital printing, a more rapid medium, is related to the slow changing character of my paintings: intimate, accessible, mutable, hands-on and individually experienced.”

Garth Lewis

Garth has exhibited in the United Kingdom, Europe, Japan and the United States. He co-produced Chromafile, a paint-based digital colour palette, and in 2013 published an interactive colour program, available at www.virtualcolourcourse.com. He is also the author of ‘2000 Colour Combinations’, published by Pavilion Books, 2009, and was awarded the Prix Prisme 2011 for ‘2000 Accords De Couleurs’, Eyrolles, presented by Academie de la Couleur, Bordeaux. He was Senior Lecturer teaching Colour and Visual Studies at Central St Martins, London, and now lives and works in Hastings.