Liz Lewis

Liz Lewis is a juried Associate Member of the Society of Animal Artists and is a member of the National Sculptor Society. She has exhibited at the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition in Charleston, SC, and Wildlife Arts Festival in Thomasville, GA since 2015. Liz was honored as the 2019 Featured Artist at the Wildlife Arts Festival (previously Plantation Wildlife Arts Festival). Liz exhibits with the Out West Art Show in Great Falls, MT during Western Art Week. Her work was juried into the Mountain Oyster Club Art Show for 2024, the “Dog and Pony” show in NYC for the National Sculpture Society. Most recently, her bronze “Prairie Icon” was accepted in the C.M. Russell Museum’s First Strike Auction in March of 2026.

The Liz’s work has been exhibited and sold at the Calgary Stampede, by Ruffed Grouse Society, Orvis, Pheasants Forever and Safari Club International. Her bronzes have been featured in Sporting Classics, Shooting Sportsman, Covey Rise Magazine, Gray’s Sporting Journal, Covey Magazine and Virginia Sportsman Magazine. She is currently represented by seven fine art galleries and several fine firearm dealer locations across the US.

At a young age, the marshy bottoms of adjacent farmland provided an 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, the creative endeavors of an only child.

Early art influences were close at hand, as the walls of her childhood home were covered with sporting etchings, watercolors and oils, and there were decoys, sculptures and carvings in every corner. Early influences include Carl Rungius, Leon Danchin, Cecil Aldin, Richard Bishop, William Schaldach and Pierre J. Mene. 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 their days at the rifle or skeet range. When their interest 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 traveled the NSCA circuit as 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, and owned and operated a fly-fishing outfitting business from Bozeman for eight years. They ran fishing rafts on the Yellowstone, Madison, Missouri, Big Horn and Gallatin, and guided on spring creeks and local private water.

After years spent in the 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. Hanging up her guide license oars at the time, her return to art would soon become her vocation and pursuit.

Liz is a passionate horse owner, and has enjoyed combined riding with her interests of wingshooting, fishing and big game hunting for 20 years. Originally buying her first horse to help pack out her elk during bow season, she eventually enjoyed training in Dressage, Working Equitation, Ranch Sorting, some extreme mountain riding and US Forest Service trail maintenance with the Backcountry Horsemen.

Calling Bozeman home now for 29 years, artist Liz Lewis continues to draw on her life of sporting experience as a flyfishing guide, outdoor photographer, shooting instructor, avid bird and big game hunter and equestrienne. Liz earned a Bachelor’s in Fish & Wildlife Biology from MSU, but jokingly admits holding an “advanced degree” earned from the prairies, rivers and mountains of Montana. Her subjects include trout fishing, horses, bird dogs, wildlife and various other subjects whose form she admires. Liz prides herself in attention to accurate 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 from memory that she shares from life as a guide, as a hunter or even just a dog owner. Her bronzes share with you that particular moment of truth, and then leave the rest for your imagination.

To bring a subject to life, breaking free of the static weight of metal. That is the pursuit of sculptor, Liz Lewis.