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4th February 2025
Snowdrops (c1935, National Galleries of Scotland) is by Mabel Royds (1874-1941) whose technique was indebted to Japanese woodcuts.She studied at the Slade School of Art then the Edinburgh School of Art where trained with Frank Morley Fletcher who was one of the first to bring the traditional art of Japanese woodcut printing to Britain. Her various flower woodcut prints are beautiful, and many feature on greetings cards.
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