Angie Lewin has been busy. Her new exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park features paintings, screen prints, wood engravings and - my favourite - a series of collages on pieces of driftwood.
Angie's watercolour drawings are wonderfully cool and elegant, and she acknowledges her debt to mid-century art and design with those precisely dated mugs. But I think her work really takes off when she balances the delicate tracery of natural forms with the strong colours and bold gestures she employs in her printmaking.
Some of the newer prints stay closer to natural forms, and they do have a lovely feeling of lightness and gaiety. As ever, it's great to see her explore the architecture and aesthetic possibilities of ordinary plants.
But I keep coming back to the driftwood collages. I like their simplicity and boldness, and the fact that the artist has had to think carefully about how to work with an awkwardly shaped, three-dimensional ground. I think she had fun making them.
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| Angie Lewin, Windswept Shore |
Angie Lewin: A Natural Line is at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park from 16 November to 23 February. I wish it was closer to Bristol!
4 comments:
The driftwood collages work very well, I have never seen anything like them before, lovely!
Can't wait to see her exhibition at YSP. Love her crisp quality of line, perfect compositions and subtle colours.
trying to think how she did them...cut paper from her prints? but then how do you stick to a porous irregular surface like wood? did she varnish the top? very inventive. Angie Lewin is a skilled artist/printmaker who shows that knowledge & love of your subject matter will always prove a winner.
I have a print (that is, a commercially printed card) of one of her Festival Mug pieces. Lovely work!
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