Angie Lewin 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.
Angie Lewin (b.1963, Cheshire) is one of Britain’s most celebrated contemporary artists, acclaimed equally for her printmaking and watercolour painting. Across both disciplines, Lewin has developed a distinctive visual language rooted in close observation of the natural world, capturing the rhythms, structures and seasonal transformations of wild plants, grasses, seedheads and coastal flora with remarkable clarity and sensitivity.
Lewin studied Fine Art Printmaking at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design before completing a postgraduate degree in printmaking at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts. After an early career as an illustrator in London, she studied horticulture, an experience that profoundly deepened her understanding of plant forms and botanical structures. A subsequent move to Norfolk prompted her return to printmaking and the development of the singular artistic voice for which she is now internationally recognised. She currently lives and works in Speyside, Scotland.
Working fluidly between wood engraving, linocut, lithography, screenprint, collage and watercolour, Lewin draws inspiration from the contrasting landscapes of North Norfolk and the Scottish Highlands. Windswept saltmarshes, clifftops, meadows and woodland edges become the setting for works that celebrate both the exuberance and fragility of plant life throughout the seasons. Her compositions combine precise observation with an elegant decorative sensibility, reflecting influences ranging from botanical illustration and the Arts and Crafts movement to mid-century design.
While Lewin’s printmaking has earned widespread acclaim, in recent years her practice has increasingly centred on watercolour. Her highly accomplished paintings have formed the focus of her most recent solo exhibitions with The Scottish Gallery. Through fluid washes, layered colour and extraordinary compositional control, Lewin’s watercolours capture still life and the natural world with immediacy and delicacy. Whether depicting gathered seedheads, dried grasses, seaweed or wildflowers, her paintings possess a quiet intensity that balances spontaneity with deep botanical understanding. Still life plays an important role within her practice. Objects collected during walking and sketching trips, including flints, shells, grasses, seedpods and dried seaweed, are carefully arranged within contemplative compositions that evoke memory, seasonality and place. Across both printmaking and painting, Lewin reveals an enduring fascination with the cycles of growth, decay and renewal found within the landscape.
In addition to her exhibiting career, Lewin is widely admired for her work in publishing and design. In 2010 Merrell published the monograph Angie Lewin: Plants and Places, celebrating her unique engagement with landscape and plant life. Together with her husband Simon, she runs St Jude’s, producing fabrics, wallpapers and stationery inspired by British artistic traditions. She has completed commissions for Penguin, Faber & Faber, Liberty, Conran Octopus, Merrell and Picador, among others.
Lewin 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. Her work is held in numerous public collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; The London Institute; the University of Aberystwyth; and the Art for Hospitals and Hospices Collection.
In October 2026, The Scottish Gallery will present a major solo exhibition of new work by Angie Lewin.
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