CAL AKARA LEWIS
contact for available works, collaborations & commissions:
studio@calakara.com
contact for available works, collaborations & commissions:
studio@calakara.com
BIO
Cal Akara Lewis (b. 1991, Bradford, UK) is an artist and facilitator. Based nomadically since 2022, he creates an ongoing body of work exploring the human inner landscape.
After graduating Nottingham Trent University in Design for Film (2013), working creatively in the electronic music scene, and exhibiting early artworks in the UK - studies in the inner sciences inspired a move to Asia, where he has developed a travelling lifestyle and introspective painting practice. Akara, his long-term public project, offers the practice to a shared space, merging expressive painting and drawing with his experience as a traditional yoga teacher.
Pivotal to his artistic development were extended residencies in India (2022–2024). Since then, he has represented independently, engaging global communities through murals, workshops, and works on linen.
ARTISTS STATEMENT
My art is about transformation — both my own inner journey and the shifts I see in the world around me. I work nomadically, often living in new cultures and spiritual communities, which inspires me to create from a place of spontaneity, openness, and self-inquiry.
Working in the spirit of the twentieth-century surrealists, I use painting to express the unseen parts of my mind. I explore colours and intimate memories from my inner space through mark-making informed by optical phenomena.
Often using realistic consumer objects & human body parts as my subjects, the work expresses the tensions between materialism and spiritual evolution in modern life, and translates personal revelations into shared space - inviting stillness, reflection, and connection to one’s own evolution.
Pivotal to his artistic development were extended residencies in India (2022–2024). Since then, he has represented independently, engaging global communities through murals, workshops, and works on linen.
ARTISTS STATEMENT
My art is about transformation — both my own inner journey and the shifts I see in the world around me. I work nomadically, often living in new cultures and spiritual communities, which inspires me to create from a place of spontaneity, openness, and self-inquiry.
Working in the spirit of the twentieth-century surrealists, I use painting to express the unseen parts of my mind. I explore colours and intimate memories from my inner space through mark-making informed by optical phenomena.
Often using realistic consumer objects & human body parts as my subjects, the work expresses the tensions between materialism and spiritual evolution in modern life, and translates personal revelations into shared space - inviting stillness, reflection, and connection to one’s own evolution.