About
Kim Lewis grew up in a sleepy suburb of Montreal, Canada, though as a child she always wished she’d been brought up on a farm. From an early age her favourite occupation was drawing and making things and she still remembers her mother despairing over the constant request for materials, with its subsequent art mess in all areas of the house.
Kim did a Fine Art Degree in Montreal, then came to Hornsey College of Art in London to do postgraduate printmaking. From the minute she arrived in England, Kim says she felt completely at home. After meeting her future husband at art school they moved to Northumberland to live and work on a hill farm, bringing up two children alongside 650 Blackface ewes, 100 suckler cows, twelve hens, six border collies and two cats.
Kim began her artistic career as a printmaker, working especially in the area of stone lithography. Her work has always been detailed, drawing from the observation of life. Her favourite subject matter was found in the quiet corners of the farm where machinery and animals rested, woolsacks were stacked, and the barns were weathered to a soft grey.
Encouraged by an illustrator friend Penny Dale, Kim decided to tell the story of the shepherding year for her son James, who was three at the time. That began a long series of country tales for Walker Books, London. After her husband died, Kim moved on to her current artistic collaborations, remaining in the wild part of northern England she will never cease to love.
Kim did a Fine Art Degree in Montreal, then came to Hornsey College of Art in London to do postgraduate printmaking. From the minute she arrived in England, Kim says she felt completely at home. After meeting her future husband at art school they moved to Northumberland to live and work on a hill farm, bringing up two children alongside 650 Blackface ewes, 100 suckler cows, twelve hens, six border collies and two cats.
Kim began her artistic career as a printmaker, working especially in the area of stone lithography. Her work has always been detailed, drawing from the observation of life. Her favourite subject matter was found in the quiet corners of the farm where machinery and animals rested, woolsacks were stacked, and the barns were weathered to a soft grey.
Encouraged by an illustrator friend Penny Dale, Kim decided to tell the story of the shepherding year for her son James, who was three at the time. That began a long series of country tales for Walker Books, London. After her husband died, Kim moved on to her current artistic collaborations, remaining in the wild part of northern England she will never cease to love.