Angela Harding
Angela Harding is an English wildlife printmaker and illustrator. She has illustrated her own books and those of other authors, and has made many book covers.
Biography
Early life and education
Angela Harding was born in 1960, in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. She was educated in printmaking and painting at Leicester Polytechnic. She then took a master's degree in fine art at Nottingham Trent University.[1]
Techniques
She works from her home as an English wildlife printmaker and illustrator. She makes sketches in the field, developing these into print designs in her studio.[2] Her work frequently combines drawings of places in Britain that she has visited with motifs of birds or animals.[3] She states that she feels connected to the sea, whether sailing in East Anglia, walking the coast in Cornwall, or cycling in Fair Isle and Shetland.[4]
She has made prints from 1982 onwards in a variety of media including etching and drypoint. More recently she has moved mainly to linocut or vinyl cut and silkscreen printing.[5]
Major works
Harding's books include the 2021 A Year Unfolding: A Printmaker’s View; the 2022 Wild Light; and the 2024 Still Waters & Wild Waves.[6]
She has illustrated other authors' books, including a 2024 version of the conservationist Isabella Tree's Wilding and the poet laureate Simon Armitage's 2024 Blossomise.[6]
Harding has made book cover illustrations for many books,[7] including Raynor Winn's 2018 nature memoir The Salt Path[6] and the shepherd James Rebanks' 2020 English Pastoral.[4]
Her prints include Blossomise, Fair Isle Curlews and the South Lighthouse, Fair Isle Puffins at the North Lighthouse, and Swans.[5]
Personal life
Harding is married and lives in Rutland.[2] On 2 August 2025, she featured on BBC Radio 4's This Natural Life, interviewed on Fair Isle by Martha Kearney.[8]
References
- ^ "Artists: Angela harding". Church Street Gallery. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ a b Harding, Angela. "About Me". Angela Harding. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ "Angela Harding: Flights of Memory". Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ a b "Meet coastal artist and printmaker Angela Harding". Coast Magazine. 19 September 2024. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ a b "Angela Harding". The Old School Gallery. Archived from the original on 8 August 2025. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ a b c "Angela Harding". Waterstones. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ "Prints Charming by Angela Harding". Rutland Pride Magazine. January 2023. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ "This Natural Life: Angela Harding". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 8 August 2025.