| Angela Lemaire | |
| Birth Place: | Buckinghamshire |
| Nationality: | British |
Angela Lemaire is an artist printmaker. Specializing in wood engraving, she lives and works in the Scottish Borders. She is a member of the Society of Wood Engravers. Her interests include illustrating ancient texts and poems, illustrating the work of authors or poets by commission and creating artist books. For many years, she collaborated with a specialist fine print publisher, The Old Stile Press,[1] that produced handprinted high quality books. Lemaire also creates single prints or paintings sometimes to commission.[2]
Lemaire was born in Buckinghamshire in 1944[3] and educated in London and Sussex before traveling to Australia. There she attended Pymble Ladies' College, Sydney, returning to the UK in 1962. In 1963 she trained in London at Chelsea College of Arts, then attended Camberwell College of Arts between 1964-1967, gaining a Diploma in Art and Design. There she studied relief printmaking and became interested in wood engraving. She went on to study etching at Morley College.[4]
thumb|Angela Lemaire exhibition at the HAGB gallery in Jedburgh in 2023Lemaire's main interest lies in the combination of text and image illustrating literature across the centuries, from Thomas the Rhymer in the 15th century[5] to Ian Hamilton-Finlay in 1992.
Her work has been exhibited in England, Scotland, and abroad, and can be found in public and private collections internationally. The National Library of Scotland holds an archive of her work which includes book drafts, sketchbooks, correspondence and engravings and the Yale Center for British Art holds many of Lemaire's books and wood engravings.[6] [7] [8]
In 2023 Lemaire had a one woman exhibition of her work at the HAGB gallery in Jedburgh.
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