Lewis describes himself as preoccupied with painting people. They're so difficult that it makes you want to keep going. If it was easy, you would run out of steam and move on to something else. His other major area of interest is painting from the nude. He speaks enthusiastically about teaching, and counts himself particularly lucky to be involved with the life class at RMIT University.
Students always respond to the figure.
I like teaching life drawing because, especially with first-year students, you're not really dealing with art. It's more about weights and balances and mathematics and physics and design. At the moment, this is about observation'. He believes that working with the figure in his classes keeps him fresh. I make my own drawings when students are comfortable about my doing that.