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This Spring, Watts Contemporary Gallery presents a solo exhibition of watercolours, prints, textiles and wallpapers by one of Britain’s best-loved artists. Angie Lewin: Patterns of Nature features over 40 works reflecting the artist’s strong connection to the natural world – including illustrations for Angie’s new book, The Book of Wild Flowers.
Angie Lewin’s distinctive prints, inspired by the clifftops and saltmarshes of the North Norfolk coast and the landscape of the Scottish Highlands, are widely admired and have established the artist as one of Britain’s most celebrated printmakers. Her work features in public and private collections around the world, including the V&A and Ashmolean Museum, and she has illustrated books for, amongst others, Penguin and Faber. She has designed fabrics for Liberty and for St. Jude’s, the company she founded and runs with her husband, Simon.
This exhibition follows Angie as she explores seashore, hedgerow, country lanes and garden. The plants and natural features she finds there inspire watercolours, linocuts and wood engravings, screenprints and lithographs in her distinctive, gentle style.
Angie Lewin said:
“I’m looking forward to this wonderful opportunity to exhibit a broad range of my prints, watercolours, fabrics and wallpapers at Watts Gallery - Artists’ Village. The exhibition reflects the inspirational landscapes where I spend my time and which are the starting point for every pattern and image that I make.”
Alistair Burtenshaw, Brice Director & Chief Executive of Watts Gallery Trust, said:
“We are delighted to welcome Angie Lewin to Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village for her first solo exhibition here in Surrey.”
“Angie’s evocative images of nature, captured in prints, textiles, book illustrations and more, are cherished by many and also echo the work of our founding artists, G F and Mary Watts. In the Historic Galleries and at Limnerslease, the artists’ home and studios, visitors can see landscapes painted by G F Watts, and in the Mary Watts Gallery, botanical drawings and decorative work show how nature inspired Mary’s practice. Like Angie, a number of Mary’s designs were also sold at Liberty.”
He continued: “Our founding artists were committed to ensuring that others had an opportunity to develop their artistic practice here in Compton, and today Watts Gallery Trust upholds this vision. Watts Contemporary exhibitions enable contemporary artists to show and sell their work and also raise funds for our Art for All Learning programme, which delivers artist-led workshops across the community.”
Accompanying the exhibition are two additional events (pre-booking essential):
Masterclass: wood engraving with Angie LewinFriday 22 March Clore Studio, Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village
An all-day workshop where participants will produce their own wood engraving under Angie’s expert tuition (maximum 10 places).
In Conversation: Angie Lewin and Christopher Stocks with Matthew PottageSaturday 23 MarchWatts Contemporary Gallery
Discussing their new book, The Book of Wild Flowers (published by Thames & Hudson on 7 March 2024), Angie Lewin and Christopher Stocks will be in conversation with Matthew Pottage, Curator of RHS Garden Wisley and panellist for BBC Radio 4 Gardeners’ Question Time.
Angie Lewin: Patterns of Nature opens at Watts Contemporary Gallery on 21 March. All work is for sale. For further information: wattsgallery.org.uk
Tamsin Williams – tamsin@wigwampr.com – +44 (0)7939 651252
Watts Contemporary Gallery provides visitors with an opportunity to see and buy contemporary art and craft that resonate with the history and heritage of Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village. Located in the old Compton Pottery, today Watts Contemporary Gallery presents six exhibitions each year. All profits raised through Watts Contemporary exhibitions support Art for All, Watts Gallery Trust’s learning and outreach programme inspired by GF and Mary Watts, founders of Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village.
Open Monday to Sunday, including Bank Holidays, 10am - 5pm, free entry. Located above the Shop. For further information: Watts Contemporary Gallery
Angie Lewin studied BA(Hons) Fine Art Printmaking at Central School of Art and Design between 1983 and 1986, followed by a year’s part-time postgraduate printmaking at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts. After working in London as an illustrator, she studied horticulture, and a move to Norfolk prompted a return to printmaking. Today, the artist mainly lives and works in Scotland. Inspired by both the clifftops and saltmarshes of the North Norfolk coast and the landscape of the Scottish Highlands, Angie Lewin depicts these contrasting environments and their native flora in wood engraving, linocut, silkscreen, lithograph, watercolour and collage.
For further information: angielewin.co.uk