I studied BA (Hons) Fine Art Printmaking at Central School 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, 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, screenprint, lithography and collage. These landscapes are often glimpsed through intricately detailed plant forms.

Attracted to the relationships between plant communities on an intimate level, I observe even the fine lines of insect eggs on a flower bud. 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.

Garden Wisdom, an anthology of garden writing published by Merrell, is illustrated throughout with 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 seedheads and the varieties of shapes, colours and habits to be found in meadow and border.”

I now live and work in Scotland. In 2010 Merrell published a monograph on my work, Angie Lewin: Plants and Places. Since then I have collaborated with the writer Christopher Stocks on a series of books for Thames & Hudson: The Book of Pebbles, The Book of Wild Flowers and The Book of Garden Flowers, with The Book of the Seashore to follow.

As well as designing fabrics and stationery for St Jude's, which I run with my husband Simon, I have completed commissions for Penguin, Faber, Conran Octopus, Merrell and Picador, and created designs for Liberty.

I was elected to the Royal Society of Printmakers in 2006, the Society of Wood Engravers in 2008, the Art Workers' Guild in 2010 and the Royal Watercolour Society in 2016.

My work can currently be seen at these galleries.

Forthcoming exhibitions

For details of upcoming events, please see my exhibitions page.

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Film

Here's a film by photographer Cristian Barnett about the inspiration behind my ‘Nature Table’ fabric and wallpaper for St Jude's.

I first met Cristian when he took photographs for Gardens Illustrated, and he later got in touch about a new series of films he was developing. In this one, I'm printing a copy of ‘Winter Spey’, a combined linocut and wood engraving.