About Dale Lewis 

 

     

Dale Lewis is a British artist and illustrator who studied at Bristol University of the West of England and the North East Wales Institute of Art & Design. He gained a Bachelor of Arts Honors degree in 2001 and has produced many illustrations for soft furnishing companies in the UK. He moved to Wales in 2001 where he was inspired by the rugged North Wales coastline and natural mountainous beauty of Snowdonia national park. As a lover of the great outdoors he finds immense pleasure in hiking through the mountains and countryside, capturing the picturesque scenes with sketches and photographs. 

 

He moved to China in 2004 to become an English teacher and has lived there ever since. He previously Taught Western Contemporary Arts & Design Culture and Media Studies at the prestigious Sun-Yat-Sen University. He now teaches at Beijing Normal University. 

 

He organizes evening and weekend art classes for his students and arranges visits to the local galleries in a bid to inspire his students and introduce them to leading European and American contemporary artists and designers as well as encouraging the students to understand more about Western arts and design history, it's important development and worldwide influences.

 

His inspiration derives from a variety of art movements from the works of the Eastern European and Italian Futurists, the Cubists,  European Impressionism, the Expressionists of the 19th and early 20th centuries and of course contemporary modern art of the 21st century. He works using a bright vivid palette of colors and a mixture of traditional and unique painting methods. He enjoys experimenting with new techniques. 

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He's currently working on a series of landscapes and hopes to exhibit a varied collection of his work in the UK, Summer 2017.