Since graduating from the University of Montevallo in Alabama, Ronald Lewis has won over 95 awards for his paintings in oil, watercolor and acrylic. He is an elected signature member of the American Watercolor Society and has exhibited with Watercolor U.S.A., Dixieland Watercolor and Drawing Show, Alabama Watercolor Society, Southern Watercolor Society, Rocky Mountain Watercolor Society, Mainstreams, and Birmingham Art Association.
He was one of a hundred artists chosen to exhibit at the Smithsonian Institute with the National Park Academy of the Arts.
He has illustrated two books: My Country Roads by Lou Brown and Papa’s Old Trunk by Mary Butler.
He has been an Honored Artist at the Birmingham Festival of the Arts, and is represented in the collections of the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Columbus Museum in Columbus, GA, and the Fine Arts Museum of the South in Mobile, AL.
He is also represented in private and business collections, including the Boborfoush Collection, Sonat, Bank of Japan, and others throughout the United States and abroad.
His works have been published in Revue Moderne in Paris, Southern Accents Magazine, Birmingham Magazine, The Artist Magazine, American Artist Magazine, and American Artist Acrylic Highlights.
Lewis is listed in the Who’s Who in American Art, and has had a number of one-man shows in the United States and in Tokyo, Japan.