As the paintings of George Lewis have become increasingly abstract, they have also become increasingly vibrant, vital, eloquent. For this consummate artist has mastered the language of abstract art and consistently uses it to communicate his pleasure in nature with fresh visual statements.

Instead of representing single experiences in the manner of traditional landscape painters, George Lewis evokes the essence of many joyous experiences in each painting. In some, color dominates; in others, rhythmic patterns of light. Always, these elements work together to form a unified and harmonious whole, complete in itself. George Lewis states, "I do not paint to shock the viewer with harsh images or bleak forms. The paintings, however, must comfort the eye and go beyond the surface. They must be a moving architecture of forms; and that the play of light and color create a luminous, shifting and subtle world appropriate to the scale of our human needs and pleasures."