As a professor of art at the University of Maine he teaches painting and drawing. He also has served as chair of the University of Maine's art department for 12 years and as acting associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. In 1975 Lewis began developing his technique for using small amounts of oil paint washed on to a paper surface with turpentine. In the resulting paintings, as in watercolors, the luminosity from the white paper shows through very thin veils of washed paint. The point of departure for each of the paintings is the physical landscape, but they are also about the experience of 'mystery,' and about transcending limitations.
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