About the Artist
Carrie L. Lewis has been drawing and painting for over 30 years.
Her interest in art began very early, with parents providing crayons and paper (even if the paper was sometimes a brown paper grocery bag!).
She sold her first horse portrait at the age of seventeen and has been painting beautifully detailed portraits of horses for clients all over the United States ever since.
Classical techniques are her method of choice. Her technique draws from the work Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) and William Bouguereau (1825-1905). Many of the materials she uses are the same as those used by these artists.
Carrie has participated in exhibits in many exciting places. Some of the more exciting include Lone Star Park Race Track, Grand Prairie, Texas and Remington Park Race Track, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 2003, she participated in Village Place, a one-time show in Louisville, Kentucky during Kentucky Derby weekend.
Since the early 90s, she has worked with the Michigan Harness Horseman's Association, donating custom portraits to their annual benefit auction. Monies raised during this annual art auction help fund a scholarship for the son or daughter of a member horseman.
Carrie is a member of the Equine Art Guild and the Newton Fine Arts Association in Newton, Kansas.
At the beginning of 2005, Carrie accepted a position as gallery manager for the Carriage Factory Gallery in Newton, Kansas.
About Old Wood Images
Old Wood Images is Carrie's newest art-related endeavor and focuses on the world of miniature oil paintings.Carrie began learning about miniature art in the Fall of 2005, while researching miniature artwork for a new exhibit at the Carriage Factory Gallery. Fascinated by this unique, but time-honored specialty art, Carrie began experimenting with miniatures. In 2006, she worked in colored pencils on paper, oils on canvas and oils on properly prepared mat board. Among the many drawings and paintings she created were a handful of miniature portraits of horses for clients.
At the beginning of 2007, she initiated a personal challenge to finish one new ACEO landscape painting every day except Sundays and has so much fun with that project that by the end of April, she had completed over 130 of the tiny paintings ... nearly 20 extras!
It was from that personal challenge that Old Wood Images was born.
The miniature oil paintings available through Old Wood Images are created with same care and attention to detail with which Carrie designs and paints traditional sized paintings.
Archival quality supports and paints are used. Paintings are painted on archival, acid free 4-ply mat board triple gessoed with acrylic gesso or sealed with acrylic paint. They may also be painted on Belgian Linen canvas and canvas miniatures can be painted on stretched canvases upon request.
Paintings are lightly varnished before framing. Custom framing is also available upon request.