Angela Lemaire

Angela Lemaire
Born(1944-09-27)27 September 1944
Buckinghamshire, England
Died25 April 2025(2025-04-25) (aged 80)
Kelso, Scotland
NationalityBritish
OccupationEngraver
Known forWood engraving

Angela Jaqueline Lemaire (27 September 1944 – 25 April 2025) was a British artist and printmaker. Specializing in wood engraving, she lived and worked in the Scottish Borders. She was a member of the Society of Wood Engravers. Her interests included 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 created single prints and paintings sometimes to commission.[2]

Early life and education

Lemaire was born in Buckinghamshire on 27 September 1944 to Monica Hope (born Grimble) and Eric Lemaire. Her parents had a messy divorce and her father took custody of she and her brother[3][4] and was educated in London and Sussex before travelling 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.[5][6] In 1969 she published a book about her unhappy childhood titled "Are You Trying to Annoy Me?" using the nom de plume of Katherine Blake.[7][4]

Work

Lemaire's main interest lies in the combination of text and image[2] illustrating literature across the centuries, from Thomas the Rhymer in the 15th century[8] to Ian Hamilton-Finlay[4] 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.[9][10][5]

In 2023 Lemaire had a one woman exhibition of her work at the HAGB gallery in Jedburgh.[11]

Personal life and death

Lemaire had a husband, Roddy Macaskill, and they had a son, before they divorced.[4] She died on 25 April 2025, at the age of 80.[12][13]

Selected titles

References

  1. ^ "Artists". The Old Stile Press. 23 April 2016. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Lemaire, Angela Archives". Slightly Foxed. 13 September 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
  3. ^ Brett, Simon (2002). An engraver's globe : wood engraving world-wide in the twenty-first century. Primrose Hill Press. ISBN 1-901648-12-5. OCLC 49970258.
  4. ^ a b c d In Loving Memory of Angela Lemaire 27 September 1944 25th April 2025. Zoe Turnbull, Funeral Directors, Jedburgh. 14 May 2025.
  5. ^ a b "Alpha by Angela Lemaire". Printed Editions. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
  6. ^ "Angela Lemaire, Printmaker and Painter". angelalemaire.co.uk. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  7. ^ Blake, Katherine (1969). Are You Trying to Annoy Me?. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-10397-5.
  8. ^ "The Journey of Thomas the Rhymer,The Old Stile Press". 14 April 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  9. ^ "{:default=>"Keyword"}: Angela Lemaire - YCBA Collections Search Search Results". collections.britishart.yale.edu. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  10. ^ "Inventory Acc.13375 Angela Lemaire" (PDF). National Library of Scotland. October 2013.
  11. ^ Exhibition at the HAGB gallery in Jedburgh
  12. ^ Davies, Sydney (28 May 2025). "Angela Lemaire obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  13. ^ "Angela Jaqueline Lemaire". Zoe Turnbull Funeral Directors. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
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