How did you get started and then develop your career?
Farley Lewis: My art career began around age 20, shocked and thrilled that someone actually wanted to pay me to paint their baptistry wall – a mural of a local river scene.
Starting college, they told me “You can’t make a living as an artist,” but after my first year as a reluctant business major, I decided to prove them wrong, or die trying. So, I switched majors. After graduating I started a sign shop and design studio, which included paintings, illustrations, and murals. It’s amazing what you can do when you don’t know what you’re doing. Over the next two decades I painted murals in Canada, Mexico, Africa, the Middle East, and all over the United States.
I did other work, including 20 years as a pastor, which I liked, but missed working with my hands and creating. In January of 2018 I returned to the art world fulltime, doing what I had always wanted to do: capture on canvas the beauty that stirs my heart awake, and share it with the world. That’s what I do now; through paintings, workshops, and training videos.
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