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.
Anastasia 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’.
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