Published by Merrell, ‘Angie Lewin – Plants and Places’ features over 70 of her limited edition prints grouped according to habitat – such as coast, woodland and hedgerow, and garden – together with drawings, paintings and collages.
The artist Angie Lewin has a unique vision of the natural world. Her hugely popular prints depict in intricate detail the native flora of a variety of environments, from salt marsh and Highland loch, to flower-strewn meadow and wild garden. Lewin finds beauty in each landscape, whatever the season, and is particularly inspired by plant forms: slender reeds, stately goatsbeard, spiky teasels and sculptural seed heads. ‘Plants and Places’ presents over 70 of Lewin’s beautifully crafted linocuts and wood engravings. The works are grouped according to habitat such as coast, woodland and hedgerow, and garden together with drawings, paintings and collages from Lewin’s sketchbooks of grasses, seed pods, seaweed, shells and other objects that she has collected on her walks. In an engaging introduction, Leslie Geddes-Brown meets Lewin in her studio, discusses her artistic inspirations and her fascination with plants, and describes how she creates her prints.
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Christopher Stocks tells the fascinating tales of nineteen cultivated flowers and their journeys from distant corners of the world to British gardens, illustrated by the painter and printmaker Angie Lewin in this charming companion guide.
The Book of Garden Flowers builds on the success of Angie Lewin’s and Christopher Stocks’ previous collaborations; The Book of Wild Flowers (Thames & Hudson, 2024) and The Book of Pebbles (Thames & Hudson, 2020.) While The Book of Wild Flowers explored the natural history of Britain’s favourite wild species, The Book of Garden Flowers is more a social history, bringing into focus some of the remarkable people who introduced exotic plants to our gardens from around the globe, including:
• Margery Fish, secretary to six successive editors at the Daily Mail, who rescued many cottage garden flowers from obscurity
• Ellen Willmot, who employed over 100 staff in her garden and burned through a huge fortune thanks to her passion for plants, dying penniless and alone
• Charles Dickens, who became obsessed with a particular pelargonium
• John Gerrard, the famous 17th-century herbalist, who planted the first nasturtiums in the UK at his City of London garden
• Henry VIII, who ate the first British-grown artichokes on the outskirts of Chelmsford
Revealing new stories behind some of our most familiar and unusual garden plants, this beautiful book explores the horticultural history and floral folklore of some of the nation’s favourite flowers.
Illustrator Angie Lewin and author Christopher Stocks follow up the success of The Book of Pebbles with The Book of Wild Flowers, a celebration of British wild flowers and their place in the landscape.
Christopher Stocks explores their beguiling and sometimes peculiar history, and reveals some of the best places to see them, as well as the conditions in which they thrive. The book focuses on around 21 of Lewin’s favourite wild flowers, and include reproductions of her paintings and illustrations, many of them created specially for the book.
Sustaining our long-held affection for the British countryside, The Book of Wild Flowers will appeal to anyone who loves British wild flowers, as well as fans of Angie Lewin, who is widely admired for her alluring images of the natural world.
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Folk at Heart
Featured artists:
Michael Agnew | Julia Albert-Recht | Gary Anderson | Malcolm Appleby | Lise Bech | Stephen Bird | Kate Black | Clive Bowen | Colin Brown | Pauline Burbidge | John Byrne | Jonathan Christie | Martin Clark | Fitch & McAndrew | Alan Furneaux | Joe Ginniff | Owen Jones | Jonny Hannah | Mark Hearld | Joe Hogan | Andrew Holmes | Tracey Johnston | Jane Keith | Rachel Larkins | Diana Leslie | Angie Lewin | Anna Liebmann | Vicky Lindo & Bill Brookes | Adrian McCurdy | Michael McVeigh | Katrin Moye | Helen Munday | Jo Pond | Claire Roberts | Terry Shone| Sylvia von Hartmann | D. Baron | W.A. Donkers | Georgian Antiques | Carola Gordon | R.G. Howard | George Manchester | Grégoire Michonze | Asiru Olatunde | Margaret Kemplay Snowdon | Tim Stead | The Thrie Estaits | Carel Weight | Ann MacFarlane | Harold Leng
Publication to accompany Angie Lewin’s new exhibition Wild Garden on display in the Scottish Gallery April 2023.
Why do we pick up pebbles on the beach? What is it we see in them, and why do we take them home to display on our shelves? Is it their inherent beauty, their infinite variation, or simply their associations with a happy time and place?
In this latest book – part social history and part practical guide – writer and pebble collector Christopher Stocks unearths the sometimes surprising story of our love-affair with pebbles, and considers how the way we see them today has been influenced over the years by artists, authors and even archaeologists.
Printmaker Angie Lewin is widely admired for her alluringly stylish images of the natural world. She celebrates the experience of walking and sketching along the British coastline, often incorporating pebbles in her limited edition prints and paintings. Many of these feature in the book alongside a series of new images.
A catalogue to accompany Angie Lewin’s exhibition Nature Assembled, an exhibition of watercolours which have been created over a two year period and marks her first major solo exhibition with The Gallery. Nature Assembled is a record and celebration of the native flora, rocks and landscape near the River Spey or from her beautiful garden in Edinburgh with shoreline finds from North Uist to the North Norfolk coast.
Modern Masters Women
A catalogue to accompany Modern Masters Women, August 2020
We are taking this moment to reflect on one key area of our history and review one hundred and twenty-five years of exhibiting women artists. This continues the spirit of our Modern Masters series and allows us to celebrate the pioneering, persistent, creative women artists at the end of the 19th century, and all the curators, gallerists and individual talents who have contributed to the equality enjoyed today in the cultural realm.
