A Joyful Decorative Style

John Hall Thorpe's joyful decorative style is instantly recognisable: think Mary Delany, pared back and infused with flattened forms of modernity for the interwar era.

Hall Thorpe (1874–1947) learnt his print craft in his native Australia, working as an illustrator for the Sydney Mail and llustrated Sydney News. But it was in London, where he moved in 1902 and attended Heatherley's and St Martin's School of Art, that he developed his inimitable style in colour woodcut.