Profile

Japanese artist Hiroko Lewis is based in Sussex, where she creates semi-abstract mindscapes inspired by her local environment.

After graduating with a degree in Fine Art from Kanazawa College of Art, she pursued a career as artist, porcelain pattern designer, and illustrator in Japan, where she exhibited widely, including at the prestigious National Art Centre in Tokyo. 

Her work has been displayed at various venues including the ING Discerning Eye and SWA at the Mall Galleries in London, the Kimberly Clark corporate HQ, and a number of Brighton Artists Open House festivals. Resonance, a major commission executed in oil, metal leaf, and patination for law firm Cripps LLC, was completed in February 2017. Comprising ten panels, and measuring 1.5m x 5m, it fills the lobby at their Tunbridge Wells offices.

Exhibition Info

Kodama: Echoes from the Forest, solo exhibition, Forest Gallery, Petworth, 16-23 November 2023

Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London: Forest Gallery stand L9, 19-22 October 2023

Artists Open Houses 2023: One-Six-Nine, May 2023

ING Discerning Eye exhibition 2022: “Rocks” selected

Sussex Contemporary: Six works shown in group exhibition, Worthing Theatres and Museum, November 2022–February 2023

Wales Contemporary: Waterfront Gallery, Milford Haven & OXO Gallery, London, October–November, 2022

Artists Open Houses 2022 May 2022

Artists Xmas Open Houses 2021 Nov/Dec 2021 http:www.onesixnine.co.uk

ING Discerning Eye exhibition 2021: “Into the Light” and “Unveiled I” selected by Tony Humphreys, and shown at the Mall Galleries in London, November 2021

Worthing Open 21 Bienniale Worthing Theatres and Museum, until 30 January 2022; “Frozen Lake, Reykjavik” received the Curators’ Prize

Artists Open Houses 2021 May/June 2021

SWA: The Society of Women Artists 2020 “Mother Tree” selected for the 159th Annual Exhibition

Artists Open Houses 2020 held from 21 Nov to 20 Dec

Christmas Open House 2019, One-Six-Nine

Edinburgh Art Fair 2019 21–24 November, represented by Frickleton Fine Art

Fresh: Art Fair at Ascot Racecourse 2019 “Basking in Reflected Glory” and others presented by Forest Gallery, 20–22 September

SWA: The Society of Women Artists 2019 “Unhurried Moon” was selected for the 158th Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London. 24–29 September

Guildford Arts Summer Exhibition 2019 at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre “The Murmuring of Water,” “Glimpse” series, and others displayed, 3–18 July

Artists Open House 2019 in Brighton, May: Once again, One-Six-Nine opened as part of the Fiveways Trail. This year saw over 1,800 visitors.

DMH Stallard, London “Echo III” and others displayed until Feb 2019

Artists Open House 2018 in Brighton, May: One-Six-Nine on the Fiveways trail welcomed over 1,600 guests

Art in Brighton Magazine 2018: full page feature in this artist’s directory

Gallery news! Now represented by Forest Gallery in Petworth. These include pictures from the Forest Dawn and Dusk series, among others. Visit the gallery’s page via this link.

Linn Painter-Stainers Exhibition 2018: Nordic Light I shortlisted

Art Bright in July 2017: Eight-artist show at Brighton’s Jubilee Library, 3–16 July 

Cripps LLP commissionResonance now on display in the foyer of the new Cripps lawyer’s building in Tunbridge Wells

ING Discerning Eye exhibition 2016: Three pictures selected by Celia Imrie and shown at the Mall Galleries in London, 17–26 November

Big Heart Auction: One work donated and sold at an online auction hosted by eBay in July 2016, in support of Chestnut Tree House Charity (Hospice)