About Mark

Mark Lewis is a designer-maker, specialising in silversmithing and jewellery, and also a landscape artist. He has a degree in 3-D Design and worked for a major jewellery and silver manufacturer in London, before establishing his own workshop. In 1985 he entered full-time teaching, although he continues to maintain a freelance consultancy. Mark has had a wide-ranging Art and Design teaching career in adult, further and higher education institutions, mostly in London. Until the summer of 2009, he was a Principal Lecturer in the Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design at London Metropolitan University. He currently lectures part-time at the Goldsmiths’ Centre in London and is a visiting lecturer at Birmingham City University and the University for the Creative Arts in Surrey.

Mark is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Horners. Other interests relating to Mark’s professional life include the history and practice of landscape painting and the relationship between art and spirituality. Mark is also a folklorist and has been a member of the Folklore Society since 1987, speaking regularly at their conferences around the UK. He has a particular interest in the traditions of the English Church, a subject on which he published a book, Days and Rites – Popular Customs of the Church, in 2013. Furthermore, Mark is a ‘pharologist’ and his passion for lighthouses began in his childhood years. Mark is a long-standing member of the Association of Lighthouse Keepers and serves on its committee as Education Officer.

During the last twenty five years, Mark has enthusiastically shared his professional interests and hobbies by giving talks to Probus, Rotary, WIs, U3As, National Trust Associations, art and historical societies, antique clubs, luncheon clubs, church groups and other community organisations, on silver and jewellery, art and design history, aspects of folklore, church traditions and lighthouses.

Mark is an active landscape painter working in both traditional and digital media. A selection of current digital paintings, which are available as giclée prints can viewed on his website: www.marklewisart.co.uk

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