[3] Lewis is a contemporary ceramicist, sculptor, potter, muralist, photographer, videographer, filmmaker, performance artist, and writer, as well as a teacher and administrator.
[4][2][5][6] After receiving a scholarship from the Royal Canadian Legion in Kelowna, British Columbia in 1954, Lewis spent the next ten years studying painting, drawing, and ceramics, and teaching.
[7][8] In 1969, Lewis was commissioned by the Canadian government to create a work of art for Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan.
Artifact, a sculptural ceramic work, was ultimately not shown, because it was thought by the commissioner of the Canadian pavilion to be obscene.
Previous students of artist's include Gathie Falk, who studied sculpture under Lewis at the University of British Columbia.