INDIVIDUALS:

• The Rt. Hon. Kevin Rudd, the 26th Prime Minister of Australia

• Sheikh Ahmed Farid, Al Alaquai, Oman

• President Obasanjo of Nigeria

• His Majesty Qaboos Bin Said, The Sultan of Oman

• His Royal Highness Queen Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, The Queen Mother of Bhutan

• His Highness Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Culture, Youth, and Social Development, United Arab Emirates

• Frank Griswold, 25th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church

• Her Royal Highness Camillla Rosemary Sand, The Duchess of Cornwall,  Wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, United Kingdom

• His Royal Highness Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, The King of Bhutan

• His Royal Highness Prince Hassan Bin Talal of Jordan 

• His Excellency Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamoud Albusaidi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Oman

• His Excellency Zaki Anwar Nuseibeh, Minister of State, and former Secretary to the President of the United Arab Emirates

• His Royal Highness Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

• His Excellency Robert Holmes Tuttle, US Ambassador to the United Kingdom

• Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, CEO of Mubadala, United Arab Emirates

• His Highness Gaj Singh, The Maharaja of Jodhpur, India

• Leonora Anson, The Countess of Litchfield, United Kingdom

• Pippa Middleton (sister of Duchess of Cambridge, sister in law of Prince William)

• Sir Alan James Carter Duncan Minister of State for Europe and the Americas, and Member of Parliament, United Kingdom

• Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani (Fashion Designer)

• Bob Thurman, Founder and President of the Tibet House New York

• Actress Tea Leoni

• Bear Grylls (Adventurer, Explorer, Man vs Wild Discovery Channel)

• Susan Rockefeller

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CORPORATE, GOVERNMENTAL, ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS:

• Royal Bank of Scotland

• World Trade Organization

• Microsoft Corporation – Tim Turito, General Manager of Government for Public Sector of Microsoft

• National Museum in Kuwait (Kuwait)

• National Museum in Oman (Oman)

• Ministry for Art and Culture, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

• Oxford University – Wolfson College (United Kingdom)

• The Asia Society

• Center For Ethnic Racial Religious Understanding CUNY

• Van Eck Funds

• C Hoare & Co Bankers (United Kingdom)

• Chelsea Yacht and Boat Company (United Kingdom)

• Dolphin Energy (United Arab Emirates)

• English National Ballet (United Kingdom)

• Four Seasons Hotel, New York City, (USA)

• First Reserve Corporation (USA and United Kingdom)

• Indian Harbor Yacht Club (USA)

• Miral (United Arab Emirates)

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MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES:

• National Museum in Kuwait (Kuwait)

• National Museum in Oman (Oman)

 

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION:

• Reeve Memorial Award for the Best Painting of London

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FEATURED WORKS AND COLLECTIONS:

• Link to Portrait Collection: http://www.georgehlewis.viewbok.com/album/portraits-paintings

• Link to Interfaith Collection: http://georgehlewis.viewbook.com/album/interfaith

• Link to Landscape Collection: http://georgehlewis.viewbook.com/permalink/638163/f1e7caa3e5b388 Link to Water Collection: https://georgehlewis.viewbook.com/album/the-expressions-of-water.htm

 

BOOKS:

• Upcoming: The Boy and The Boy King (2019)

• Arthur and Bun Bun (Release 2018)

 

LECTURES, SPEECHES, APPEARANCES

 

• Word Happiness Summit, University of Miami - on Spirituality and  Happiness in the new economic paradigm (2018)

• United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY - Nexus Global Summit,  —  on Gross National Happiness and the power of synthesising silos of activity (2017)

• Harvard University, John F Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA — on innovation through art (2015)

• New York University. Puck Building, Manhattan - Lecture on Water and Consciousness and how to protect our water supply in the 21st Century (2017)

• CUNY — on Religion and culture along the Silk Route – a journey from West to East (2015)

• Cornell University Club, New York, NY — on Bhutan, Buddhism, East and West (2015)

• United Nations, New York, NY — United Nations Society for Enlightenment and Transformation on art, empathy, and healing (2015)

• MOMA, San Francisco, CA — on interfaith, female empowerment; a discussion of the sacred and profane (2014)

• Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom —  interfaith workshops, showcasing East/West philosophical traditions. (2012)

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FEATURED EXHIBITIONS AND SHOWS:

2017

• The Consciousness of Water, NYU Wagner Gallery. Manhattan, NY

• Lauch of “Neptune in Pisces” New York

2016

• The Body Water, Chelsea Gallery, New York City

• Joint Exhibition with Travis Hanson, Los Angeles, CA

• A Celebration of Bhutan, Salomon Gallery, New York City

• The Pastoral Landscape in the Present Tense, Salomon Gallery, New York City

2015

• Sexuality & Gender in the Middle East, Lu Magnus Gallery, New York City

2014

• Green Abu Dhabi, hosted by Sheikh Nayhan, Minister of Culture UAE

• Ahlan Art, London and Dubai

• Singapore Art Fair

2013

• Green Abu Dhabi, hosted by Sheikh Nayhan, Minister of Culture UAE

2012

• Group Show at Holden Luntz Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida Green Abu Dhabi, UAE.

• VBH, 940 Madison Avenue, New York City, USA

• Behind the Veil, Sexuality and Gender in the Middle East hosted by Valentino (Dec 2011 - Jan 2012)

2010

• Sotheby’s Auctioneers. Doha, Qatar. Harouf, The Art of the Word Islamic Sale

• Abu Dhabi Art Fair, Salwa Zeidan Gallery, UAE

• Green Abu Dhabi, UAE

• Mathaf Gallery, Motcombe Street, Knightsbridge, London Joint Salwa Zeidan Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE

2009

• Langton Street Gallery, Chelsea, London

2008

• Bait Muzna Gallery, Muscat, Oman

• The Dar El Cid Gallery, Kuwait City, Kuwait

2007

• Artist in Residence at the InterContinental Hotel, Park Lane, London

• Bait Baranda, the National Museum, Muscat, Oman

• Artist in Residence, The Grand Hyatt Hotel, Muscat, Oman

• Sacred Spaces, Places of the Spirit in Art at the San Juan Capistrano Mission, San Juan Capistrano, California, USA

2006

• World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland The World of the Painter-Traveler

• Waiting for the Wve, at the Waterside Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall

• Wolfson College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

• The Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of Marine Artists at the Mall Galleries, The Mall, London

• Chelsea Arts Society (Juried Show), London (June 2006) Winner of the 2006 Agnes

• Reeve Memorial Award for the Best Painting of London

• Chelsea Art Fair, London, with Panter and Hall

2005

• The Air Gallery, Dover Street, London. A Celebration of Light

• The Chelsea Arts Club, London

• Chelsea Arts Society, (Juried Show), London.

2004

• The Indian Harbor Yacht Club, Greenwich, CT (USA)

• Christies,  London.

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Ambassadorships: 

• Gross National Happiness, Kingdom of Bhutan

• Advisor to GNH USA