Sonia Lewis

About the Artist
Sonia Lewis


Throughout her award-winning career in catering and gourmet cuisine, as a restaurateur, as well as a designer of cut-work garments and table linen for local and export sales, the artist satisfied her lingering appetite for fine art by spending more than just a few vacations at the Louvre in Paris. where she quietly absorbed the works of her favorite artists, Rembrandt and Vermeer, whose attention to detail, extraordinary precision and masterful treatment of light and shadow in their work, had a strong appeal to her.

Born in the suburbs of St. Andrew and schooled in the island's capital of Kingston, Jamaica, Lewis recalls with delight the blissful summers of her childhood, spent at her Grandparents Great House nestled in the salubrious hills of Mandeville, in the island's interior. However, it is the images of the old coal stove; intricate hand crafted table linen; the water goblets; utensils ; the many fruit trees with there blossoms and fruits, and the undulating hills that remain indelibly etched in her mind.

In 2008, faced with her impending retirement, Lewis entertained thoughts of realizing her dream of becoming an artist, bu...