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a painting with flowers and plants on it

A friend sent me the link to Angie Lewin's web site and I thought I'd feature her block printing today. Lewin works in a variety of printmaking techniques, but of course I'm most interested in her linocuts and wood engravings. Interestingly, she often does prints that combine those two techniques. Her work always includes multiple blocks and multiple colors, and sometimes the different blocks are done with different techniques, for example in this dandelion. I assume that the black is a wood…

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the cover of moonlight by angel lewis, with flowers and leaves in black and white

Angie Lewin is the artist for the green revolution. Not since William Morris has an artist combined patterned abstraction with horticultural specificity. Her hand-made prints show seed pods and grasses, clouds and moonlight, islands and cliffs. Her linocuts and wood engravings are both specific and universal, a quality that has made her one of the most demanded printmakers in England. Angie was not always strongly connected to the natural world. For years Angie lived in north London as an…

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an image of flowers in the grass with mountains in the background by corbi

I 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 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…

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