ISAAC E. JOHN LEWIS

Isaac John Lewis was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1961 he attend the oldest art academy in Cuba: "San Alejandro" where he was graduated in 1984 starting his career as an artist. Between 1984-87 he worked for children in cultural events in the Lenin park, Bellas Artes” museum and in schools,in those years he also worked for the comunity with a small group of poets, singers and actors.

For 8 years he worked for children in the "Jose Marti Pioneers City" in Tarara beach, Havana, in the beginning painting murals and after a few years in events and activities related with visual arts, first with Cuban “pioneers” and after that with children who came to Cuba for medical care from Ukraine, victims of the Chernobil nuclear disaster.

He always had among his themes scenes of old houses and paintings about music, after he met Dale Fitzgerald, founder and general director of The Jazz Gallery in New York, during a Jazz Festival in Havana, jazz became the main subject of his work, that year Dale Fitzgerald, invited Isaac to be part of the 1st International Jazz Art Competition 'INJAC 1996” and so he sent there several paintings and got an Honorable mention, for a oil on canvas named "Inspiration" which was published in the “Jazz times” magazine, issued in May 1999.

His work have been mostly about jazz, in pieces that look like stain glass, beautiful fading old houses and both music and achitecture mixed, like musicians or musical instruments with an old house in the background, also Isaac made some artistic pottery, resembling old broken houses, even got an award in the year 1998.

Last year he made two new series of paintings one dedicated to the beauty of the old walls in Havana and another as a tribute to his friends, the long time jazz dancers of Santa Amalia, in Havana. Isaac has been painting and showing his work mostly in Canada in the last 3 years, and focusing his art again in the beauty of decaying old Havana.

Isaac's art is in private collections in Spain, Canada, Portugal, Brazil, Norway, U.S.A., Mexico, England, France, Germany, Holland, Russia, Ukraine, South Africa, Japan among other countries.