Biography

Dylan Lewis is in his early 40’s, a second-generation South African artist whose grandparents moved from the United Kingdom to South Africa in the 1930’s.

For the last decade Lewis focused extensively on the Cat, particularly the leopard, lion and cheetah, exhibiting his work across North America, the United Kingdom and in South Africa. It is said that his sculptures define the very dynamics of the wild kingdom – predation and the predator, instinct and primeval impulse, life, death and rebirth. These qualities are no less present in his recent work: a sensitive exploration of the human form.

Lewis works in clay, crafting the medium so that its final shape and surface take on an almost elemental quality, its textured nuances and infinite subtleties not only bringing the animal or human to life but speaking of the wilderness itself, of the earth, air, water and fire that shape the environment and sustain its inhabitants.

With an abiding passion for wilderness and the forces that shape it, Lewis is part of a broader, global, growing revulsion against the rapacious excesses of humankind in its conquest of the environment. All his sculptures touch the elemental, the pristine, the primitive and the subconscious.