About the Artist

Carrie L. Lewis has been drawing and painting for over 30 years.

Her interest in art began very early, with parents providing crayons and paper.

She sold her first horse portrait at the age of seventeen and has been painting beautifully detailed portraits of horses for clients all over the United States ever since.

Classical techniques are her method of choice. Her technique draws from the work Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) and William Bouguereau (1825-1905). In addition to borrowing their techniques, she uses as many classical materials as possible (see Materials/Techniques).

Carrie has participated in exhibits in such locations as Lone Star Park Race Track, Grand Prairie, Texas and Remington Park Race Track, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 2003, she participated in Village Place, a one-time show in Louisville, Kentucky during Kentucky Derby weekend.

Since the early 90s, she has worked with the Michigan Harness Horseman's Association, donating custom portraits to their annual benefit auction. Monies raised during this annual art auction help fund a scholarship for the son or daughter of a member horseman.

In 2007, Carrie's painting, "A New Day", was short listed in the Shadwell Estates Ltd. 2007-08 Stallion Brochure Competition.

The following year, she participated in Mural Mosaic's Le Cadeau du Cheval. The project featured 283 16 inch square tiles assembled into one monumental artwork.

Carrie's current workload includes multiple portraits and a series of ACEO Horse Paintings.

"I have always loved horses. It is a joy born within, placed deep inside by God above.

"Classical art has been a love since my first encounter with it. The works of such Great Masters as Rembrandt, Vermeer and Bouguereau have the ability to stir the soul and inspire my own creativity like no other art form.

"I suppose, given those two passions, it was natural that I should eventually learn and adapt the techniques of those Old Masters to my own attempts at capturing the spirit of the horse in oils."

Carrie L. Lewis, Painter