While Ethel Spowers did illustrate industrial subjects such as an opencast coal mine or a harbour-side crane, she favoured more harmonious scenes like children playing, busy city streets and rural subjects. In Birds Following a Plough she focuses on the old world, the honest hard-working life of a ploughman and his team of horses. The squawking seagulls electrify the scene and add a sense of dynamism and action to an otherwise sedate rural subject.

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