A watercolour painter and printmaker, Powell only went to art school after the First World War, during which, rather than going to the RA Schools as had been intended, she served as a Red Cross Nurse.

After the war, and a correspondence course with John Hassall School, she attended Farnham School of Art. She exhibited at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours and occasionally with the Society of Women Artists, through to the 1950’s.

As well as her linocut prints, Powell worked on scraper boards – inking or painting the white ground and then scratching into it; a technique closely related to printmaking processes, but resulting in a unique artwork, though perhaps intended for reproduction.

This is an original scraper board, with Indian ink. Mounted by the artist onto cream wove and entitled, signed in ink, and with her address, Hill Top Cottage, Dockenfield, Farnham, Surrey, on the reverse. Trimmed to the image. One of several original scraperboards by Powell that I have for sale