COLOUR WOODCUT SOCIETY
The Colour Woodcut Society, a not-for-profit society, was founded by Frank Morley Fletcher (25 April 1866–2 November 1949) in 1920 and committee members included John Edgar Platt (19 March 1886–29 April 1967) and Allen William Seaby (25 May 1867–28 July 1953) and Arabella Louisa Rankin (4 February 1871-29 April 1943) served as the secretary of the society. Producing colour woodcuts in the Japanese manner, the technique for Japanese woodcuts involved cutting separate blocks for each colour and then applying coloured ink by hand employing a brush rather than a roller. The first exhibition was at the Macrae Gallery at 95 Regent Street, London on 1-3 November 1920 and from 1921 its exhibitions at the Macrae Gallery then at 16 Fulham Road, London, SW11 with the eighth and last exhibition of the Colour Woocut Society was held at the Macrae Gallery in Fulham in 1927 although Elsie Garrett Rice (25 November 1869-27 April 1959) and the members arranged an exhibition at Bedales School, Petersfield, Hampshire in July 1928. They also held exhibitions elsewhere including at the Scottish Gallery at 26 Castle Street, Edinburgh in December 1924. Suffolk artists who exhibited at the Colour Woodcut Society include Ethel Alice Kirkpatrick.