Large Original pencil ink & charcoal drawing by Lewis Davies 1939-2010 women portrait

drawing, depicting a study of a portrait of a sitting artist at the work and her nude female model, signed, artist studio stamped, unframed

Dimensions aprox.

Picture size 33 x 24 inches

Good condition, some signs of age, please see photos

Lewis Davies trained at Walthamstow School of Art with such tutors as Peter Blake and Bill Jacklin. He later worked for many years in adult education, building a flourishing art and ceramics department in Waltham Forest, where his enthusiasm and commitment inspired his classes and students alike. Many of his students became long term friends, and also went to Cromer in Norfolk after his move there, to continue painting and drawing under his influence and tutelage. He was loved for his warm personality and quirky sense of humour.

His passion for art meant that he wasn't happy unless he could paint or draw or model every day. But another passion was history, being especially knowledgeable about medieval times, and the two were sometimes combined with the recreation in ceramics of some medieval imagery, such as re medieval ivories.

Lewis Davies was apparently best known in Norfolk for his illustrations for, and presentation of, the Rime Of The Ancient Mariner. And when, in 2008, there were 50 decorated elephants placed around Norwich and then auctioned for charity, in the "Go Elephants!" event, the Lewis and Hillary Davies elephant was similarly decorated and later sold for £3,800.

He died on the 22nd of February 2010, and an obituary wriiten by his wife, Hillary, was published in the Independent on the 3rd April 2010.