Woodcut Print, "Winter," 1960

Alice Coats was a major British printmaker. Beginning with her schooling in the 1920s, she experimented with color woodblock and later linocut, etching, and engraving. By the 1930s, she was working in illustration and calligraphy. Her first publication was an illustrated children's book in 1937. After World War II Coats emerged as a major botanical illustrator, producing standard texts on the history of garden plants.