Angie lewin

I studied BA (Hons) Fine Art Printmaking at Central St. Martins College of Art and
Design between 1983 and 1986, followed by a years part-time postgraduate
printmaking at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts. After working in London as
an illustrator I 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, I depict these contrasting environments and
their native flora in wood engraving, linocut, silkscreen, lithograph and collage.
These landscapes are often glimpsed through intricately detailed plant forms.
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 my 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 seed heads. An anthology of garden writing published by
Merrell, Garden Wisdom, is illustrated throughout by my 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
seed heads and the varieties of shapes, colours and habits to be found in
meadow and border. I now mainly live and work in Scotland. In 2010 Merrell
published a monograph on my work, Angie Lewin Plants and Places. As well as designing fabrics and
stationery for St Judes, which I run with my husband
Simon, I have completed
commissions for Penguin, Faber,
Angie Lewin used water
colours to make most of her
art work and also put them in
her exhibition and museum
containing her art work

Conran Octopus, Merrell and

Picador. I have also designed fabrics
for Liberty. In 2006 I was elected to
The Royal Society of Painter
Printmakers and in 2008 to The Society of Wood Engravers.
In 2010 I was elected to The Art Workers Guild.