The Scottish artist Iain Macnab of Barachastlain was the founder and principal of the famous Grosvenor School of Modern Art, the school at which the art of original linocut was first pioneered in this country. Here, he gathered around himself an inspired group of teachers including Claude Flight, Cyril Power and Sybil Andrews. His concepts of the sense of motion which could be created by the shape of repetitive parallel lines were of profound influence, in particular in relation to the art of linocut – an art form which both he and Claude Flight pioneered at the Grosvenor School. Iain Macnab’s first recorded wood engravings date from 1927 and it was as a wood engraver that he developed his concepts of the use of line, creating an exceptional body of technically brilliant and truly inspired works for which he is justly famed. [
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