Helen Grace Stevenson was a Scottish artist, most active in the 1920s and 1930s when her colour woodcuts of Scottish scenes proved popular.

Biography

During the early 1920s, Stevenson studied at the

Edinburgh College of Art Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) is one of eleven schools in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Tracing its history back to 1760, it provides higher education in art and design, architecture, histor ...

under Frank Morley Fletcher who taught her to produce

woodcut Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges—leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts. Areas tha ...

prints using Japanese techniques. Between 1924 and 1935, she exhibited many prints of Scottish life and landscapes with the Society of Graver Printers in Colour (SGPC). Works shown by Stevenson at the SGPC included ''The Hen Wife'' in 1926, ''Washing Day'' in 1930 and ''Gylen Castle, Kerrera'', exhibited in 1934. Stevenson was also a regular exhibitor with the Royal Scottish Academy where she showed some fourteen works, with the

Aberdeen Artists Society The Aberdeen Artists Society was founded in 1827 and aims to raise awareness of contemporary visual arts in Aberdeen and the North of Scotland. History The Aberdeen Artists' Society was founded in 1827 by local artists associated with Scottish p ...

and at the

Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts (RGI) is an independent organisation in Glasgow, founded in 1861, which promotes contemporary art and artists in Scotland. The institute organizes the largest and most prestigious annual art exhibitio ...

which exhibited fifteen of her works. The

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

holds two examples of her prints.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stevenson, Helen 20th-century British printmakers 20th-century Scottish women artists Alumni of the Edinburgh College of Art Artists from Edinburgh Scottish printmakers