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Angie lewin
Angie Lewin is a British printmaker working in linocut, wood engraving, lithography and screen printing.B
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Angie lewin the making of nature table
Biography
Angie Lewin was born in 1963, Cheshire.She 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. After working in London as an illustrator Lewin studied horticulture also she is moving to Norfolk after promoted her return to print making.[1]
Work
[2] While living in Norfolk Angie Lewin was inspired by the clifftops and saltmarshes of North Norfolk coast and the Scottish Highlands. Using these environments she depicted depict these contrasting environments and their native flora in wood engraving, linocut, silkscreen, lithograph and collage.
Current works
Angie Lewin - Plants and Places, published by Merrell, is drawn throughout by Lewin’s prints, drawings and textile designs. Author Leslie Geddes-Brown writes: or lithographs, so full of vigour and beauty. Endlessly repeated, the wild flowers and grasses crowd into her fabrics; they appear in her collages made of old paper and print cut-outs; and, in botanical detail, they fill her sketchbooks.
As well as designing fabrics and stationery for St Jude's, which she runs with her husband Simon, Lewin has completed commissions for Penguin, Conran Octopus and Picador. She has also designed fabrics for Liberty's Autumn Winter 2010 collection, including the Winter Stem design that has also been used for Liberty's 2011 Comic Relief Shopper Bag.
She lives in Weybourne on the North Norfolk coast with her husband Simon.