Printed from 4 blocks in raw sienna, spectrum red, viridian & Chinese blue

Signed, titled & numbered ed. 19/60 (upper right)

 

 

Sybil Andrews (1898 – 1992) was a British-born Canadian printmaker best known for her modernist linocuts. Andrews trained in England, and began producing and exhibiting linocuts in 1921, working frequently with her informal partner Cyril Power. She also helped in the establishment of the The Grosvenor School of Modern Art, and became the first secretary from 1925 to 1928. In 1947, Andrews and her husband immigrated to Canada where they settled in Campbell River on Vancouver Island, BC.

One of the largest public collections of Sybil Andrews's work is held by St. Edmundsbury Heritage Service at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, England where she was born. This collection includes a number of early watercolour paintings, executed while the artist was still living in Suffolk.