Allangrange Prints is a small family business started by Elizabeth and Allan Cameron in about 1978 to promote Elizabeth’s paintings. Their daughter, Kirstie Evans, joined the business in the early 80’s. They started with five flower prints and gradually over the years, the stock of flower prints has been enlarged to include vegetable prints, fungi prints, fruit prints and the ever popular zodiac prints.

Limited Editions
The prints are mostly limited editions, the Helleborus Niger, Abutilon, Yellow Primrose, Summer Flowers and the zodiac prints are the exception, also the little Apple and Mouse print which Elizabeth painted for her granddaughter who is nicknamed ‘Mouse’.

Canvases
Last year we expanded and produced canvases of most of the vegetables and some of the flowers. They all have three coats of varnish on them; so can be wiped easily. They do not require frames and are perfect for the kitchen or dining room. The Savoy Cabbage (the first vegetable we had printed), the Cauliflower and the smaller Sunflower which were all originally paper prints, are now only available on canvas – the paper editions have run out.

Nearly all the vegetables are available as both canvas and paper prints, except for the January King Cabbage and the Brussel Sprout, which are only available on paper. Also available on both canvas and paper are the Red Poppy, Nerine and Aquilegia and Agapantha.

Zodiac prints
The Zodiac prints were started in 1982 when Elizabeth painted a picture for her new grandchild of some of the flora and fauna that was out at the time. Her other grandchildren then demanded the same of their birth signs, and so she commenced painting all the zodiac signs with a bit of artistic licence as not all the plants were out in Scotland where she lived although they were perhaps out in Cornwall where her daughter and grandchildren lived!

Table Mats
This year we have expanded into tablemats of the vegetables, fungi and fruit. The mats are octagonal and very smart! They come in boxes of four and you can choose which mats you want. There are six vegetable table mats to choose from, (four green veg, asparagus, fennel, okra and artichoke and two red, a pepper and chili), six fungi tablemats to choose (four brown and two red) and four fruit, apple, pear, peach and quince.

Jigsaws
Also for those who like jigsaws, we have had two done, the Small Hellibore and Hydrangea Heads, the Hellibore I think is difficult and the Hydrangea is fiendish. They are wooden with quirky shaped pieces i.e. a trowel, thistle, gloves etc and there are no corner pieces.

The Book of Rhododendrons
The Book of Rhododendrons is a limited edition of only 500, it was printed in Italy by Stamperia Valdonega and with a forward by Peter Cox who is a well known rhododendrologist. It is a book of 25 Rhododendron prints, all grown in Scotland except for one, R. Dalhousie which Elizabeth found in New Zealand.

Sadly Elizabeth died in December 2008, painting up until two weeks before her death, four days before she had announced that she would probably only live for another two or three years, although in January she stated that ‘this year I will die’ !! either way it was very peaceful and she is missed hugely, but she leaves a wonderful legacy of her paintings and prints scattered and appreciated all over the world.