Working mainly in oil, Lacey Lewis is an award winning contemporary realist figurative artist who paints in a classical style. Whether or not one is versed in the elusive language of visual design, Lacey’s paintings communicate to the viewer as she purposefully chooses recognizable aspects of reality to recreate on the canvas. It is vital to Lacey that her art at a minimum expresses the beauty that she observes in her subject. Often that expression of beauty is an end in and of itself. Other times, it is used as a lure to entice the viewer to look a little longer so that a deeper meaning or narrative may be revealed to them.

Lacey prefers to focus on the human form for her subject matter, sensing that all of humanity, throughout time and space, regardless of race, gender or age, share common experiences and emotions. It is therefore natural for Lacey to identify with and communicate through images of people. She believes the human subject forces the viewer to engage the artwork and enables the artist to express an entire range of ideas from the subtle to the intense.