ANGIE LEWIN

Angie Lewin studied BA(Hons) Fine Art Printmaking at Central St. Martins College of

Art and Design between 1983 and 1986, followed by a year’s part-time postgraduate

printmaking at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts.

While working in London as an illustrator, she and her husband decided to buy a

holiday home on the coast in Weybourne where they would take a breathe from the

exhausting and active life in the big city. Eventually they both moved full-time to the

house, both in love with the place and the peaceful nature surrounding it. Angie

studied horticulture after moving to Norfolk where she found her inspiration for

printmaking again.

“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 plantforms.”, explains Angie. She would

draw the little eggs of bugs on the plant ot the way it ate parts of a leaf in perfect

circle.

She often goes out on long walks among the nature and collects different materials

such as seedpods, grasses, flints and dried seaweed, which she uses for her

collages.

She is attracted by sweeping, desolate places like Norfolk clifftops, salt marshes,

beaches, Highland rivers, hill lochs, west-coast seascapes. One of the artists who

inspired her into her work is Alan Reynolds.

What she is mainly interested into showing through her art are the insignificant,

about to bloom flowers, who are often passed by, or considered to be weeds. She

looks for the best possible way to depict their structure and character, which she

doesn’t want to show absolutely accurate, but by capturing it’s essence and what

makes it different.

ANGIE’S WORK

Links

Plants and places http://www.angielewin.co.uk/pages/plants-places

Official website http://www.angielewin.co.uk/

Interview used as reference http://www.homesandantiques.com/feature/designs-we-love/angie-lewin-prints

Videos about her by Cristian Barnett https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LhvoC8n_N8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sZwzBcjvtE