Simon Lewty & The Nereids
18 May - 4 July 2021

In collaboration with the Lettering Arts Trust

The Lettering Arts Trust Centre
Snape Maltings, Snape, Suffolk IP17 1SP

The exhibition takes its title from a group of small recent drawings inspired by Lewty’s love of Greek mythology. The Nereids in particular captured his imagination. Known as the fifty benign sea goddesses whose father was Nereus, the ‘honest old man of the sea’ and whose mother was Doris, the daughter of Oceanus, they symbolise everything that is beautiful and kind about the sea and its related waterways. Their melodious voices could be heard by all those who inhabited their mythological world.