PLANTS and gardens inspire the Bluecoat Display Centre’s latest exhibition.
The College Lane venue has invited 12 contemporary jewellers to respond to the work of printmaker Angie Lewin.
The pieces they have created, which have a common theme of nature, floral motifs and organic shapes, are being displayed next to the art works that influenced them. Lewin studied Fine Art Printmaking at Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design in the 1980s 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 her to return to printmaking.
Inspired by the cliff-tops and salt-marshes of the North Norfolk coast and Scottish Highlands, she depicts these contrasting environments with their native flora in wood engraving, linocut, silkscreen, lithograph and collage.
