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British born (Canadian) 1898 - 1992
Following the war, Sybil Andrews moved back to her hometown of Bury St. Edmunds in Sussex where she met architect and artist, Cyril Power. Together they moved to London where Power became a lecturer at the newly established Grosvenor School of Art and Andrews took a position as the school secretary; here they both attended linocut lessons from the school's founder Claude Flight.
Andrews was quick to develop the formal language encouraged by Flight, her prints are obviously influenced by Cubism, Futurism and Vorticism. She, however, rejected many of Flight's ideals. He saw the linocuts as a new form of democratic art, colourful prints that could be produced cheaply and then sold for the price of a theatre ticket in order to introduce art to a wide selection of homes.
Andrews had a particular interest in capturing the rhythm of the human figure, engaged in either work or sport, and many of her linocuts reflect this fascination. She mastered a key compositional technique of using a single focal point on which the energy of the print is centred which is so well suited to the linocut medium.
"It is impossible to be fussy with lines, you have to simplify, you are forced to simplify your idea to its fundamentals." (Andrews)
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