• Angie Lewin, The Blue Boats, 2025
    Angie Lewin, The Blue Boats, 5 colour Lithograph printed from 4 stones and 1 plate, 2025
    Collaborating Printer: Alastair Clark.

    Angie Lewin

    The Blue Boats, 2025

    Edinburgh Printmakers is delighted to present a new limited edition stone lithograph by renowned botanical artist Angie Lewin.

     

    Created in collaboration with printer Alastair Clark in our print studio, this intricate work captures Lewin’s fascination with the natural world, inspired by a still-life composition of collected seedheads, feathers, and a chipped ceramic mug depicting a mysterious coastal scene. Through the tactile process of stone lithography, Lewin’s meticulous drawings and delicate washes come to life, showcasing her signature interplay of detailed plant forms and evocative landscapes.

     

    Angie Lewin’s work is a celebration of the natural world, where intricate plant forms and collected objects weave together to tell stories of place and season. Based in the Highlands, she draws inspiration from her surroundings, meticulously composing still-lifes from plants, pebbles, and weathered ceramics gathered on coastal walks. Her long-standing relationship with Edinburgh Printmakers has produced several editions, and this new stone lithograph showcases her mastery of line and texture.

     

    This print will also be displayed at The Scottish Gallery as part of their exhibition St Judes | The Art of Collaboration | Part 2. Founded by Simon and Angie Lewin in 2005, St Jude’s has championed the very best in British printmaking for two decades. This exhibition brings together an array of limited edition prints for artists whose shared passion for print is at the heart of the studio’s creative output.

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  • “My studio shelves are crammed with ceramics, often chipped or cracked, and filled with seedheads and feathers collected on walks,...

    “My studio shelves are crammed with ceramics, often chipped or cracked, and filled with seedheads and feathers collected on walks, alongside other objects: pebbles, lichened stems, dried seaweeds and shards of ceramics found whilst beach combing. I build still-life compositions which bring together these elements. An old mug with its scene of figures in small boats within a mysterious, mountainous coastline was the starting point for this image.

     

    “I was delighted to be invited to create a lithograph with Alastair. I've worked briefly in stone lithography, taught by Alastair at Edinburgh Printmakers, quite a few years ago. It's a process that I don't use in my studio up on Speyside - it requires a level of skill that I've not achieved myself!

     

    “I really enjoy the tactile experience of drawing and creating washes on the surface of the stone. In the final print, faithfulness to the quality of the drawn line seems to be unique to this printmaking process. Collaborating with a master printer reveals approaches to creating an image which I wouldn't achieve working on my own.”

  • Angie Lewin

    Biography

    Lewin studied Fine Art at Central School of Art and Design, London, followed by postgraduate Printmaking at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts. 
     
    She works in linocut, wood engraving, screen printing and watercolour and creates collages of printed Japanese papers applied to objects collected on walking and sketching trips. She also designs fabrics and wallpapers using block-printed elements, which are then commercially printed in the UK for St Jude's, which Lewin co-founded in 2005.

     

    Landscapes, viewed through intricately detailed interlocking plant forms, play a vital role in Lewin’s work. Focusing on the structure of native plants, she is attracted to the relationship between these plants on an intimate level, observing them through the seasons and how they are shaped by their environment and climate. 
           

    Angie Lewin Plants and Places was published by Merrell in 2010.

     

    The Book of Pebbles, The Book of Wild Flowers, and The Book of Garden Flowers, all written by Christopher Stocks and published by Thames & Hudson, are illustrated throughout by Lewin’s prints and watercolours.

     

    Lewin is a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, the Royal Watercolour Society, the Society of Wood Engravers and the Art Workers Guild.