Edwina Ellis was born in Sydney, Australia in 1946. She trained at the National Art School as a jewellery designer. In 1972 she came to London, and now lives in Wales.
Edwina designed the Bridge series of British one-pound coins with linocut, while a 2013 two pound coin and the recent Stephen Hawking fifty pence coin for 2019 are digital designs on an iPad. For The Times masthead she engraved polymer blocks and her Art on the Underground poster for TFL depicting London architecture consists of nine three-block colour engravings.
Edwina pioneered
engraving on homopolymer resins and recently developed relief printing
apparatus using laser-cutting technology. With recent prints and films she continues
to explore engraving with vinyl cutting that informed her Fine Art Practical
PhD research at
Aberystwyth University. She configured traditional wood engraving tools for Intaglio Printmaker
London.