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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'Beautifully crafted linocuts and wood engravings' --Home & Interiors Scotland,
'A delight for gardeners and nature lovers' --Elle Decoration
'Irresistibly wonderful prints from Angie Lewin' --Gardens Illustrated
'A beautifully illustrated book' -- The Lady
'... there is something enchanting about Lewin"s work... it is neither faithful reproduction nor whimsical reinterpretation, but homage to the intricate details of nature, once removed from realistic images.' -- --nonsuchbook.typepad.com
A delight for gardeners and nature lovers --Elle Decoration
Irresistibly wonderful prints from Angie Lewin --Gardens Illustrated
'A delight for gardeners and nature lovers' --Elle Decoration
'Irresistibly wonderful prints from Angie Lewin' --Gardens Illustrated
'A beautifully illustrated book' -- The Lady
'... there is something enchanting about Lewin"s work... it is neither faithful reproduction nor whimsical reinterpretation, but homage to the intricate details of nature, once removed from realistic images.' -- --nonsuchbook.typepad.com
A delight for gardeners and nature lovers --Elle Decoration
Irresistibly wonderful prints from Angie Lewin --Gardens Illustrated
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Angie Lewin, a member of the Royal Society of Painter- Printmakers and the society of Wood Engravers, had exhibited her work around the United Kingdom. Leslie Geddes - Brown is a leading writer on gardening and interior design. Her books include Merrell's Garden Wisdom (2009), which features illustrations by Angie Lewin.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By chipin
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A beautifully produced book with 191 pages and most of them covered with Angie Lewin's fabulous prints and illustrations. This book is exceptionally good value for money, it is the next best thing to owning the original prints. A lovely 'coffee table' book.
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By Black Box
Format:Hardcover
In austere times, it seems appropriate that an artist like Angie Lewin should be so popular. Her work resonates with all the economy and values of mid century modern; a winning combination of nostalgia and design-savvy. Her palette may be necessarily limited, but the way she recycles the commonplace and overlooked is always evolving and inventive.
And if you like the greetings cards, you'll love the book. It's bigger for a start. It's also a properly pleasurable thing - nice paper, nice typography and design, nice printing. Machine age values strangely at odds with the craftiness of the prints themselves, but great creative tension.
Like others, I do wish it told me more about Lewin and the nuts and bolts of her creativity, but it's still a wonderful guilty pleasure to have this on the coffee table; a work of art for less than twenty quid, an absolute bargain. No regrets.
And if you like the greetings cards, you'll love the book. It's bigger for a start. It's also a properly pleasurable thing - nice paper, nice typography and design, nice printing. Machine age values strangely at odds with the craftiness of the prints themselves, but great creative tension.
Like others, I do wish it told me more about Lewin and the nuts and bolts of her creativity, but it's still a wonderful guilty pleasure to have this on the coffee table; a work of art for less than twenty quid, an absolute bargain. No regrets.
36 of 41 people found the following review helpful
By Brett
Format:Hardcover
This book about Angie Lewin is even better than I expected. Packed full of her beautiful prints and explanations about her working practice.Worth every penny of the money particularly for those of us who can't afford her prints.
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A stunning book
An excellent book with inspirational work. the pictures are excellent. Hardback, good quality, as an art teacher i will be using her work as an inspiration for printmaking and... Read more
Published 5 days ago by Ms. Natalie H. Oldham
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inspiring!
I love the ideas, the layout and the way that Lewin starts with something representational such as' river and loch' which she translates into something new,creative and more... Read more
Published 19 days ago by Jane Green
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Visual feast.
Many years ago I saw some of Angie Lewins prints in a gallery in Cambridge and I have been a fan ever since. Read more
Published 24 days ago by Chris Jorgensen
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Inspirational
This is such a lovely book to look at with every page offering the most beautiful prints and drawings. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Miss Janet Andrews
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love it
Quite beautiful. She has such a clear style and lovely colours. Will use it as a source book for ideas
Published 1 month ago by Mrs Gaynor Cooper
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Excellent.
Many ideas and a lovely book to read and enjoy. Many thoughts in there for embroideries also. Just bought the Stitch Magazine to view Kathleen Laurel Sage's idea on a piece of... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Norma Bean
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Beautiful pictures
Beautiful displays of flowers. I am an enthusiastic embroiderer and love the displays of flowers, wild and simplistic. As shown in the Stitch magazine recently, truly beautiful.
Published 2 months ago by Sarah coates
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Purchased as a christmas present for my sister. Quality was excellent, Price was good. she was very pleased with it.
Published 3 months ago by Brian Morfoot
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This lovely book!
Brilliant and a real treat!! I have given these as birthday presents, and both friends delighted. One in her 70's who loves the method of work, and the other a successful 'A' level... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mrs B Anderson
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Beautifully produced book and an excellent insight into the...
If you like Angie Lewin's unique style of woodcuts, linocuts, screen prints, lithographs etc. you'll like this book which explains how the work was produced.
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