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Linda Lewis Art

Growing up in a small town in Michigan , Linda Lewis was often drawing or painting, building houses for her dolls or sewing. She would likely be found in the sand box making buildings and cities and objects. A fresh rain yielded more creations! Around age 10 her brothers and she discovered some clay in the banks of a creek. Long hours were spent making and remaking objects from the clay she dug from the side of the creek. With no art curriculum at the school she attended, she was surprised to find she could fit in at least one art class each semester while attending a small college in Iowa (Graceland College). Her focus was drawing and painting but a four week workshop in ceramics left her wanting to do more with ceramics.
Linda began teaching elementary school after college, married, and became the parent of four children. After her children were grown and with 30 years as an educator, she began pursuing a lifelong dream as an artist. Forty years after her first experience on the banks of a small creek, she began creating figurative sculptures from clay and taking classes at the Des Moines Art Center and in Santa Fe, New Mexico .

Linda now creates medium-scale, earthy, figures from clay. The figures are hand-built using stoneware or earthenware clay and fired at low temperatures. Surfaces of oxides, slips, underglazes and glazes are added and fired several times between each application until a rough, weathered texture, with glimpses of color emerges.

If you look hard enough, you might see a part of yourself in one of the pieces.

Linda Lewis, Narrative Sculpture in Clay