Mabel Allington Royds

Mabel Royds (1874-1941) [http://www.printdealers.com/artist_template.cfm?id=1308] was an English artist most known for her woodcuts. 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.