Catch the wind…

British printmaker and painter Angie Lewin produces beautiful, nature inspired pieces which reflect her love for the flora of the countryside she explores. Each piece makes you almost able to feel the wind blowing and to smell the salt in the air. Her work is full of life and liveliness.

The pieces are graphic and linear, with depth created using different strengths of line.

There are always lots of different plants in a natural tangle, evoking hedgerow and seashore with shades of prints from the middle of the 20th century – I can see links to Lucienne Day and the graphic prints popular during the 1970s.

 

My mum had storage pots like this when I was a child!

Tea anyone? Once again, this is an artist who appeals to my magpie tendencies…many a happy hour have I spent collecting treasures from beaches in the Scottish Highlands and the wilds of North Wales…and I’m not talking dubloons and diamonds here…no, beach glass, sea urchins, pebbles with holes in, feathers, driftwood and the odd, bleached skeleton of a sea creature…much more exciting to bring home, if worth slightly less. Lewin seems to me to be a woman after my own heart. The pieces seem to say “look what I found today”.

How lovely…I love seeing people at work, creating beautiful things and then to be able to see the completed piece just makes it so much better. Lewin is not only a fantastic print maker, but an extremely talented painter. This piece is made all the better for me by the inclusion of the little thistle jug – the first time I ever went to the highlands, I bought a jug virtually identical to this from a charity stall at a fair on the Isle of Skye..it remains a treasured memento of my first visit to that beautiful place.

It all just makes me want to get out my sketchbook and high tail it to the coast as soon as possible. Lovely, lively prints and paintings. Deceptively simple, intricately detailed, hiding secrets amongst the stems…Take a closer look and feel the breeze blowing.