Sheila Lewis Watercolours - Nova Scotia Canada

Carrying on a tradition in the arts that dates back to her mother's family, at an early age, Sheila Lewis was encouraged by her parents to follow an interest in painting.

In recent years, she has concentrated on watercolours and was honoured with membership in the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (CSPWC). In Ontario, her work was exhibited in the Niagara Peninsula during her residence there. At present, it is mostly being shown in Nova Scotia from her Rose Bay home. Her paintings are also found in many private and public collections in Canada, the United States, England and Germany.

Sheila Lewis lives and works on the South Shore of Nova Scotia. She has studied extensively in England and Canada. And has attended workshops in Nova Scotia, notably those given by Jack Reid, CSPWC. Her watercolours are both well-disciplined and accessible to the art public.

Among Sheila's subjects are shells, trees, flowers and rocks, fishermen's boats and stores, rivers and the sea. She captures reflections and unexpected light, whose subtleties of tone and colour deeply and delightfully convey the spirit of the Maritime seasons and climate - the fog and sunlight, the rain and snow.

Sheila Lewis is a strong supporter of the Mahone Islands Conservation Association. Ruth Taylor of Lunenburg was delighted to be named the winning bidder on Sheila's donated watercolour painting of two islands in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. "I love it, I'm thrilled with it," she says.