Amelia Bown is a Illustrator & Printmaker who’s work is a celebratory and positive promotion of the beauty found in the natural world.

Northamptonshire based printmaker, Amelia Bown, works primarily in screen printing and nature illustrations. Amelia’s fascination with nature started at a young age. Growing up in Leicestershire’s rural countryside, surrounded by wildlife and flora, her work is a reliving of her youth exploring natural habitats with the exciting discovery of wildlife.

Amelia creates the beauty and wonder of the natural world by introducing colour through the use of patterned paper to simple line drawings. She often makes marks with ink on paper or linocut backgrounds to be incorporated into digital paintings and silk screen printings.

Aiming to push the constrictions of the flatness of screen printing and finding ways to bring life into her pieces, Amelia will make water reflective or add texture through the build up of ink using the four colour process. Her work is colourful and intricate, where her chosen wildlife takes inspiration from observations, memories, literature or documentaries.

Amelia graduated from the University of Derby in 2012 with an MA in Visual Communication.

She has exhibited in a number of contemporary printmaking exhibitions since 2020 mostly around the midlands including Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Sheffield. The most notable of all was her achievement in becoming a finalist in Sketch for Survival in 2020, 2021 and 2023 and having work exhibited in London Oxo gallery and Edinburgh Dundas Street Gallery.

Amelia is a member of the Leicester Print Workshop, People of Print and Association of Animal Artists.

Amelia Bown is stocked by:

Wistow gallery,

Wistow Rural Centre/Kibworth Rd,

Leicester LE8 0QF