George Mackley

George Mackley (1900-1983) was a printmaker, painter and teacher. He studied at Goldsmiths' Training College, 1918-1921. Later, while teaching, he had private tuition in wood engraving from Noel Rooke at Central School of Arts & Crafts. He was a member of the Society of Wood Engravers, the Rpyal Society of Painters-Printmakers and the Art Workers' Guild. He published 'Wood Engraving' in 1948, 'Engraved in Wood' in 1968 and 'Confessions of a Woodpecker' in 1981. The Victoria & Albert Museum and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford are among the many museums holding his work.