Arts and culture: Landscape as language
For recently retired professor Michael Lewis, art is a way of feeling more deeply. For half a century, he has created an innovative body of art that has inspired generations, and been exhibited and acquired in prestigious collections. Lewis doesn’t just paint landscapes, says his colleague Laurie Hicks. He paints ideas. Thoughts. Possibilities. He uses the landscape as a medium; in many ways, the landscape is simply the language. Lewis says he and his wife, May, and their children came to Maine never intending to stay. They never found a reason to leave, and the result is a legacy.
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