Angie Lewin studied printmaking at Central St Martin's College and Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts. After working in London as an illustrator she studied horticulture and a move to Norfolk prompted a return to printmaking.
Inspired by both the clifftops and saltmarshes of the North Norfolk coast and the Scottish Highlands, she depicts these contrasting environments and their native flora in wood engraving, linocut, silkscreen, lithograph and collage. These landscapes are often glimpsed through intricately detailed plantforms. Attracted to the relationships between plant communities on an intimate level, even the fine lines of insect eggs on a flower bud are observed in her work. Still lives often incorporate seedpods, grasses, flints and dried seaweed collected on walking and sketching trips. A Wedgwood cup designed by Ravilious, may contain feathers and seedheads.
A recent anthology of garden writing, 'Garden Wisdom', is illustrated throughout by Angie’s prints, and author Leslie Geddes- Brown explains: "The whole book was, in its turn, inspired by the art of Angie Lewin, who brings her own vision of the natural world to her work. She sees the beauty in all seasons and all manifestations of plants: the ordered pattern of the blooms, the thrusting energy of the emerging buds, the prolific seedheads and the varieties of shapes, colours and habits to be found in meadow and border."
As well as designing fabrics and stationery for St Jude’s, which she runs with husband Simon, she has completed commissions for Penguin, Conran Octopus and Picador. She has also designed fabrics for Liberty's Autumn/Winter 2010 collection. Angie is a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and the Society of Wood Engravers.
The images below show all of the pieces in the exhibition. Some of the editions of the prints are now completely sold out and no longer available, all of the collages are sold, if the prints are not marked as sold out there should be at least one copy available, please contact Alex Godfrey on 01423 525 300 or 07702801379 or email mail@godfreyandwatt.co.uk for full details.
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