Eileen Mayo was a superb printmaker and worked with wood-engraving, lithography, screenprint and linocut. Her highly tuned sense of design and technical skills, are evident in Doric Dairy where the cutting of the lino and the registration of the blocks is impeccable. She was drawn to more traditional subjects, animals in particular, in this case a horse-drawn milk float rather than speeding automobiles. “In the mid-twenties Claude was simply a very helpful friend to me, whom I met more often in the street in which we both lived than in his studio. He always stopped to ask me what work I was doing, and gave me much good advice for which I am still grateful. One day he telephoned me to say that the Redfern Gallery was about to hold an exhibition of Linocuts. I asked ‘What is a linocut?’ and over the phone he told me how to produce one.” —Eileen Mayo 1985

(One O'Clock Jump: British Linocuts from the Jazz Age, 7 December 2024 - 11 May 2025)