Brian Lewis
Mr. Brian Lewis was my mentor for about three and a half years at the Bougie Studio (MPLS) where he instructed his students in classical drawing and painting techniques.
Brian's lineage as an artist comes also from the French Academic approach, specifically classical realism, or neo-classicism via Richard Lack (et al. Gammel). Brian is probably best known for his still-life and portraiture. He is in fact one of the finest portrait and figurative painters alive. He is also a well respected landscape painter.
I remember on weekends, or sometimes on a week-long vacation, Brian would take a sketching trip to Colorado or the North Shore or some distant, beautiful location with other artists and return with a bundle of small plein air sketches under his arm. All of us students would gather around to admire his paintings. These paintings would often become the subject of large-scale finished paintings like the one above. The picture(above) hung in the foyer of the Bougie Studio for a number of years while I was attending. Brian is currently instructing at The Atelier in Minneapolis, and is preparing for a one-man show which is to be announced.
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