Anastasia Lewis retrospective arrives at Great Pulteney Street gallery
Anastasia Lewis was known as Stash to family and close friends. They celebrate the late painter’s life and art with a retrospective of work created over a period of 30 years as a full time artist.
Lewis described her practice as primarily concerned with what lies beneath the perceived surface rather than an apparent reality. A strong sense of structure defines her work, from the formal grids of earlier works and butterflies caught in patterns and repetitions, to more recent landscapes informed by walks along the Lincolnshire coast.
Primarily a painter, she also created works on paper, collage and photography while waiting for the paint to dry. Geometry and nature come together in the vibrant abstracts Anastasia Lewis shared in her final few Instagram posts captioned as ‘the traces we leave as we walk’.
Anastasia Lewis (1943-2025) painted mainly in oils and acrylic, but also worked in collage, photography and watercolours.
She exhibited widely in the UK as well as internationally in France and Australia. She was a regular participant of the ING Discerning Eye and was selected for the Royal Academy Exhibition in 2019.
Her work is held in private and public collections, including New Hall College Cambridge, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Collyer-Bristow, London.
She was married to the actor Jim Broadbent.
