Robert Lewis

I have been honored three times at the Carmel Art Festival, was the winner of the first Monterey Plein Air Festival, and have been part of several painting competitions and exhibits across the nation: Plein Air Easton, Sedona Plein Air Festival, Callaway Gardens Plein Air, and others. I enjoyed a long career in art as an illustrator, designer, and fine artist before returning to my native California and taking up plein-air landscape oil painting. I’ve worked in watercolor, scratchboard, paper sculpture, and acrylic. My work is part of the permanent collection of the Academy Art Museum on the East Coast. I am one of the founding members and a Signature Member of the Monterey Bay Plein Air Painting Association (MBPAPA). I work outdoors and in the studio. My work is currently available directly from me. My wife and I live in Monterey.

Monterey, California, Carmel, Seaside, Salinas Valley, and around the Monterey Bay to Santa Cruz are the primary places that I paint outdoors. Recently, I’ve been working on a project to paint the Salinas Valley farmlands. You can view my progress here.

Studio work is also part of my practice. More and more, I bring back plein air work to touch up in the studio or use, as plein air was originally used as the basis of a larger studio piece.