Through their St Jude’s gallery and associated design studio, Angie and Simon Lewin have been showcasing the work of a number of British printmakers since 2005, both from their former Norfolk gallery and at galleries across the UK, including The Scottish Gallery, the Bankside Gallery and Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

This latest collaboration with The Scottish Gallery presents a selection recent prints by Neil Bousfield, Chloe Cheese, Melvyn Evans, Peter Green, Katherine Jones and Angie Lewin, working across a variety of printmaking mediums, including wood engraving, linocut, lithography and woodcut.

Chloe Cheese

Born: 1952

Place of Birth: London

Born in London, Chloe Cheese spent her childhood in the Essex village of Great Bardfield, observing the printmaking of her parents, Bernard Cheese and Sheila Robinson, and their friends Edward Bawden and Michael Rothenstein. Chloe studied at Cambridge Art School before attending the Royal College of Art, London.

Selected commissions:
House of Commons, a lithograph of The Vote Office; illustrations for ‘A Passion for Pasta’ by Antonio Carluccio; illustrations for ‘Walking the Bridge of Your Nose’ poems chosen by Michael Rosen for children.

Public Collections include:
Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Arts Council of Great Britain; House of Commons; Tate Britain (print); Museum of London.

Neil Bousfield

Place of Birth: Middlesbrough

Neil Bousfield studied MA Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking at the University of the West of England, Bristol, being awarded with distinction in 2007. He had previously studied BA (Honours) Animation at West Surrey College of Art and Design, followed by an MSc in 3D Computer Graphics at Teesside University. In 2009 he was elected a member of The Society of Wood Engravers and in 2014 a member of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers. Neil now works as part-time lecturer in Illustration at Norwich University of the Arts, whilst continuing to pursue his own printmaking practice.

Melvyn Evans

Born: 1958

Melvyn Evans is a printmaker and illustrator based in Kent. He earned a degree in illustration from Exeter College of Art and Design, studied at Goldsmiths College London for a year, and took up drawing classes at the Royal College of Art under the tuition of Bryan Kneale RA.

Evans’s work is informed by rural traditions and our connection to the British landscape. There is a sense of prehistory in old place names and early monuments. Most of Melvyn’s prints are about the exploration of this sense of place.

Peter Green

Born: 1933

Died: 2023

Peter Green studied at Brighton College of Art and the Institute of Education University of London. Having qualified as a teacher, he initially taught at a secondary school in East London where he established a thriving school printing press, producing small books and original prints. During this time he developed his own work as a printmaker and was elected to membership of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in 1958. In the early 1960s, the director of London Graphics Arts (also known as The London Arts Group), Eugene Schuster, recruited Peter, who joined an impressive list of young printmakers. Schuster held an extensive range of prints by European Modern masters (including Picasso and Matisse) and commissioned new editions from young contemporary artists for placing primarily in public buildings across Europe and North America. Peter produced a number of large plywood block prints, printed without a press, with most of the colour being applied directly using paper stencils – a method that the artist used throughout his career.

Katherine Jones

Katherine Jones is a contemporary British artist working in a combination of painting and traditional printmaking techniques. Her work revolves around perceptions of safety and danger, focusing on ordinary objects, spaces and buildings as a framework to begin to question these themes.

Public collections include the V&A prints and drawings collection, The Ashmolean Museum, Yale University Library and the House of Lords.

Angie Lewin

Born: 1963

Place of Birth: Cheshire

Angie Lewin was born in Cheshire and studied Fine Art Printmaking at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design before completing a postgraduate degree in printmaking at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts. After working in London as an illustrator she studied Horticulture and then subsequently moved to Norfolk, which prompted a return to printmaking. Angie now mainly lives and works in Scotland.

Inspired by both the clifftops and saltmarshes of the North Norfolk coast and the Scottish Highlands, she depicts these contrasting environments and their native flora in wood engraving, linocut, silkscreen, lithograph and collage. Her still lifes 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. An anthology of garden writing published by Merrell, Garden Wisdom, is illustrated throughout by her 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.”

In 2010 Merrell published a monograph, Angie Lewin – Plants and Places. As well as designing fabrics and stationery for St Jude’s, which Angie runs with her husband Simon, she has completed commissions for Penguin, Faber, Conran Octopus, Merrell and Picador and has also designed fabrics for Liberty. In 2006 Angie was elected to The Royal Society of Painter Printmakers and in 2008 to The Society of Wood Engravers. In 2010 she was elected to The Art Workers Guild and in 2016 she was elected to The Royal Watercolour Society.

Public Collections include:
V&A London; The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; The London Institute; The University of Aberystwyth; Art for Hospitals and Hospices Collection

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