Founded in 2005 by Simon and Angie Lewin, St Jude’s collaborates with an eclectic group of artists to create and print unique fabrics and wallpapers. The idea behind the company was born when a collector of Angie’s limited edition prints mentioned that her work might translate well onto printed fabric. We were intrigued by that idea, and spent some time looking into how textiles are produced. We started with the simple aim of producing two of Angie’s designs and taking it from there. Since then St Jude’s has become a small but thriving business. We’ve had the pleasure of working with a number of artists, makers and printers we admire, including Mark Hearld, Ed Kluz and Emily Sutton. We give the artists we collaborate with control over important aspects of the process, such as choosing colourways. And we always provide them with a proper credit for their work. We take an interest in fine art and commercial design, but we are particularly inspired by work produced in the middle ground between the two. We love Edward Bawden’s graphic design and illustration work for London Transport, for example. And Eric Ravilious’ ceramics for Wedgwood. It appears that some wonderful and unexpected things can happen when a talented individual meets a visually-aware organisation. This is very much the spirit we try to foster at St. Jude’s. If you’d like to discuss any aspect of our work, please don’t hesitate to email info@stjudes.co.uk or telephone us on 01603 662951.
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St Jude’s co-founder Angie Lewin studied BA (Hons) Fine Art Printmaking at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, followed by a year’s postgraduate printmaking at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts. Exhbiting her prints and paintings at galleries across the UK, Angie has also completed commissions for Penguin, Faber, Conran Octopus, Merrell and Picador and has designed fabrics for Liberty. She is a member of The Art Workers Guild, The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, The Society of Wood Engravers and The Royal Watercolour Society.
Above: Angie Lewin ‘Honesty Blue’ screenprint (2015), commissioned by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Angie’s limited edition prints will often form the starting point of her fabric and wallpaper designs. Her 2006 wood engraving ‘Five Trees’ inspires the design of our ‘Birch Tree Sun’ fabric. An early sketch of this design features in Angie Lewin – Plants and Places, a book dedicated to Angie’s work which was published by Merrell in 2010.
Above: Angie Lewin ‘Five Trees’ wood engraving (2006) Opposite: ‘Birch Tree Sun’ fabric for St Jude’s
Christopher Brown was born in London in 1953. He attended the Royal College of Art where he was introduced to, and eventually assisted, Edward Bawden, the master of the linocut. It was Bawden who encouraged him to explore this medium. Since then, Christopher has exhibited his prints at the Michael Parkin Gallery, The Royal Academy, The Fry Gallery, The Fine Art Society and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Above: Christopher Brown ‘The Elizabethan Home’ linocut (2011)
Above: Christopher Brown ‘Albion’ linocut (2016)
Born in 1974, Mark Hearld studied illustration at Glasgow College of Art and then completed an MA in Natural History Illustration at the Royal College of Art in London. Taking his inspiration from the flora and fauna of the British countryside, Mark works across a number of mediums, producing limited edition lithographic and linocut prints, unique paintings, collages and hand-painted ceramics. Mark Hearld has completed commissions for Faber & Faber, Tate Museums and Boden. In Autumn 2012 Merrell published Mark Hearld’s Work Book, the first book devoted to Mark’s work.
Above: Mark Hearld ‘Lapwing’ platter (2016)
Above: Mark Hearld ‘Ballindalloch Blackbird’ linocut (2011) Opposite: ‘Harvest Hare’ and ‘Bird Garden’ fabrics for St Jude’s
Born and raised in the depths of North Yorkshire, Emily Sutton graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2008. With a lifelong love of drawing, painting and crafting, Emily uses a combination of these approaches in her current work, producing paintings, prints and handmade birds – as featured in World of Interiors magazine. Emily is inspired by the relics of a bygone era and afternoons immersed in the contents of the Museum of Childhood in Edinburgh and has illustrated a number of children’s books for the V&A Museum in London.
Above: Emily Sutton ‘Goldfinch’ hand-painted and hand-stitched bird (2008) Overleaf: ‘Deep Sea’ fabric by Emily Sutton for St Jude’s
Born & bred in Dunfermline, Jonny Hannah studied illustration at Liverpool Art School and then the Royal College of Art in London. Since graduation in 1998 he has been working both as a commercial designer and illustrator (his clients include The Daily Telegraph, The New York Times & The St. Kilda Courier) and printmaker, creating wonderful screen printed books, posters and prints for his own Cakes & Ale Press.
Above: Jonny Hannah ‘I Have No One’ linocut (2007)
Above: Part of a large mural created for our exhibition of Jonny’s work in Edinburgh, April 2015 Opposite: ‘The Darktown Billets-Doux’ wallpaper for St Jude’s
Born in 1933, Peter Green OBE RE studied at Brighton College of Art and the University of London. Peter initially taught at a secondary school in east London where he established a thriving school printing press, producing small books and original prints. During this time he developed his own work as a printmaker and was elected to membership of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in 1958. Linda Green is a self taught printmaker. Working with Peter she has developed a range of direct relief printing processes, without using a press, including a method of paper cut stencils which she now uses in her own printmaking. Her work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Mall Galleries and Bankside Gallery in London. We recently published the first book dedicated to Peter’s work written by Nathaniel Hepburn entitled The Workmanship of Uncertainty.
Above: Peter and Linda Green ‘Mountain Structure’ woodcut and stencil print (2016) Overleaf: ‘Colourdrome’ fabric by Peter and Linda Green for St Jude’s
‘Monkeys and Birds’ was designed in 1958 by artist Sheila Robinson (1925-88) and was printed by hand to decorate the walls of Cage Cottage, the family home in Great Bardfield. The design originates from Sheila’s hand cut linocut blocks. A chapter profiling Sheila’s work features in Bawden, Ravilious and the Artists of Great Bardfield published by the V&A. As well as the original colour way, we’ve worked closely with Sheila’s daughter, the printmaker and painter Chloë Cheese, to create two additional colour ways for the launch of our first archive design. Find out more about Sheila Robinson’s work via the Fry Art Gallery website www.fryartgallery.org
Above: Sheila Robinson ‘Cat on Chair’ cardboard cut (1971) courtesy of Fry Art Gallery Opposite: ‘Monkeys and Birds’ wallpaper for St Jude’s
Outer and inside covers feature Christopher Brown’s ‘Albion’ wallpaper for St Jude’s. Artist portraits and studio photography by Alun Callender. www.aluncallender.com Fabric set photography by Ben Anders. Jonny Hannah mural photograph by David N. Anderson. Designed by Simon Lewin.
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