Into the box – Wood engraving today
The South London Lettering Association’s first social evening talk for 2017 was from Peter S. Wood. He originally trained as a painter and printer, taught in secondary schools for 40 years including teaching lino cutting, and for the last 3 years has had a studio at St Brides teaching wood engraving. Peter gave a short history of wood engraving and showed some illustrations from William Blake and the Boys Own paper, and told us that in the early days, the picture would be drawn by the artist and then passed on to the engraver.