Liz Lewis is a juried Associate member of the National Society of Animal Artists. She exhibits her work every year at the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition in Charleston, SC, and Plantation Wildlife Arts Festival in Thomasville, GA. Liz's bronzes have been featured in Sporting Classics, Shooting Sportsman, Covey Rise Magazine, Gray’s Sporting Journal, and Virginia Sportsman Magazine. From a young age, Liz Lewis preferred to be outdoors exploring the world beyond the limits of her small town. The marshy bottoms of adjacent farmland provided early and immersive exposure to the natural world and the wonders of its inhabitants. Being a visual person by nature, she would return home to recreate her experiences with her pencils and paintbrushes. Early art influences were close at hand, as her family owned a rare sporting book and collectibles business. The walls of her home were covered with sporting etchings, watercolors and oils, and there were decoys, sculptures and carvings in every corner. Carl Rungius, Leon Danchin, Cecil Aldin, Richard Bishop, William Schaldach and Pierre J. Mene were early influences for Liz. Joining family travels to exhibit at high-end sporting conventions also widely expanded her interest in sporting and wildlife art. Liz was raised in a shooting family, whose recreation was spending the day at the rifle or skeet range. Later when their interests moved to sporting clays, it was not long before Liz was traveling the country as a sponsored member of the National Sporting Clays Association's All-American Ladies and Junior Teams. Liz was a sponsored shooter for both Beretta, USA and Fiocchi, USA. She studied wildlife and fisheries biology at the same time, and balanced them both with bird hunting and fishing in her home state of Wisconsin, before moving to Bozeman, Montana. It is Montana where she and her husband began their young marriage, diving headlong into an all-consuming sporting life, going well beyond passion and lifestyle. Trading competitive shooting for pointing dogs and bird hunting, she was free to explore the west with her gun, dogs and fly rod. Liz and Jimmy guided, owned, and operated a fly-fishing outfitting business out of Bozeman for 8 years. After years spent outdoors, she was suddenly inspired to try sculpting by fellow fishing guide and friend Rod Zullo. She had often met frustration with other mediums and the limitations of only two dimensions, but her first block of clay gave her the freedom and renewed artistic inspiration she had been craving. Calling Bozeman home now for 23 years, artist Liz Lewis continues to draw on her life of sporting experience as a fly fishing guide, outdoor photographer, shooting instructor, avid bird and big game hunter and equestrienne. Liz earned a bachelor's in Fish & Wildlife Biology from Montana State University. Her subjects include trout fishing, horses, bird dogs, wildlife and various other subjects whose form she admires. Liz prides herself in attention to proportion and scientific accuracy, while still interpreting the finer elements of the subject, which stir the emotions of the viewer. Liz's bronzes often tell a story. Sometimes it's a scene frozen in her memory that she shares from life as a guide, as a hunter, or even just as a dog owner. The "situational bronze" shows that particular moment of truth, and leaves the rest for your imagination.