Whyn Lewis

Born in Edinburgh in 1973, Whyn graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1995. She is well known for her paintings of whippets and other animals.

Whyn has had several solo exhibitions in the UK and has won numerous awards, including five from the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, as well as the Noble Grossart Painting Prize and The Anna Miller Trust Scholarship. She has exhibited with Gerber Fine Art & Compass Gallery in Glasgow since she graduated, and her work is in many private collections.

Her recognisable paintings show bold, highly detailed animals against plain but layered backgrounds, and she often uses the shapes and symbolism of the animals as a narrative, featuring clues in objects hanging from the subjects' collars.