Background
Lewis was born in Wales and studied at the Newport School of Art in Wales from 1923 to 1926.
Lewis was born in Wales and studied at the Newport School of Art in Wales from 1923 to 1926.
He was then awarded a place at the Royal College of Art where he studied from 1926 until 1930.
In 1939 World World War II was declared and he was called up in 1941 for initial training in North Wales and joined the Searchlight Regiment of the Gloucestershire Regiment in Somerset. After the war Stanley Lewis became Principal of Carmarthen School of Art where he taught until his retirement in 1967. With Michael Ayrton and Enzo Piazzotta he held a three-man show at the Bruton Gallery.
His painting The Welsh Molecatcher (1937) was voted the most popular picture at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition that year.
lieutenant hangs today at the Newport Museum and Art Gallery in Wales. His wartime painting of The Attack on the Battleship, Turpitz, is now at the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton, Somerset.
Stanley Lewis exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1932 and 1961:
1932 - Portrait of Valerie, Portrait of Edith
1936 - Portrait of a Ploughman
1937 - The Welsh Mole Catcher, Portrait of Mrs Kirkley
1939 - Portrait of a Girl with a Rose
1940 - The Croesyceilliog Blacksmiths, The Doll
1955 - The Welsh Dresser
1961 - Horsepool Road, Laugharne
In the 2006 New Year Honours Lewis was awarded the Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to the arts Until his death, was working on an illustrated book of his wartime experiences.