Monica Poole

Monica Poole, RE, was born in 1921 in Kent, where she still lives. Her technical brilliance as an engraver makes her one of the leading exponents of the medium, with subject matter drawn from the coastline - striking rock, root and plant forms - together with a number of large studies of trees. She was first introduced to wood engraving in 1938 when a student at Thanet Art School under Geoffrey Wates and after the war she enrolled on John Farleigh's course on book production at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. Early in her career she illustrated Reginald Turner's "Kent". This was followed by numerous other commissions, but she was becoming increasingly interested in making independent prints, for which she is now well known. In 1985 she published "The Wood Engravings of John Farleigh".