Mabel Allington Royds
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Mabel Royds was an English artist most known for her woodcut
s. She grew up in Liverpool and studied art at the Slade School in London. Unable to afford traditional pear wood boards from which woodcuts were commonly made, she purchased breadboards from Woolworths
on which to create her works. She married the etcher Ernest Stephen Lumsden
in 1913 http://catherineburns.com/royds.html and they had a daughter. Her most well known work includes the Knife Grinders, Housetops, and the Boat Builders, all scenes of India created in around 1920-1930. Her woodcuts of flowers, dating from around 1930 to 1933, including Cineraria, Honeysuckle and Columbine, are also well known.
Woodcut
Woodcut—occasionally known as xylography—is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed, typically with gouges...
s. She grew up in Liverpool and studied art at the Slade School in London. Unable to afford traditional pear wood boards from which woodcuts were commonly made, she purchased breadboards from Woolworths
Woolworths Group
Woolworths Group plc was a listed British company that owned the high-street retail chain, Woolworths, as well as other brands such as the entertainment distributor Entertainment UK and book and resource distributor Bertram Books...
on which to create her works. She married the etcher Ernest Stephen Lumsden
Ernest Stephen Lumsden
Ernest Stephen Lumsden, born London, 22 December 1883, died Edinburgh, 29 September 1948 aged 64 years, was a distinguished painter, noted etcher and authority on etching....
in 1913 http://catherineburns.com/royds.html and they had a daughter. Her most well known work includes the Knife Grinders, Housetops, and the Boat Builders, all scenes of India created in around 1920-1930. Her woodcuts of flowers, dating from around 1930 to 1933, including Cineraria, Honeysuckle and Columbine, are also well known.