Octopus Studios

Isaac John Lewis was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1961. He studied in the oldest art academy in Cuba: "San Alejandro", where he graduated in 1984, starting his career as an artist. His art is an tribute to old Cuban architecture and music, especially jazz, he received an Honorable mention for a oil on canvas painting named "Inspiration", in a show in the Jazz Gallery in New York, which was published in the “Jazz Times” magazine, issued May 1999. His works have been mostly about jazz in pieces that look like stain glass, beautiful fading old houses and or both subjects mixed, like musicians or musical instruments with an old house in the background. Subjects also include embracing figures, mostly humanized trees. He did some artistic pottery resembling old broken houses. In 1998, one of his pieces was awarded first prize in the category of hand painted pottery. Isaac has been painting and exhibiting his work mostly in Canada since 2005, In the last few years, he has introduced the beauty of BC and the alleys of east Vancouver in his art. Most lately he’s working on Rustic Strings Instruments, partially carved wood and fishing lines.