She depicted many subjects, mostly drawn from the scenes around her, including Cambridge Market, dancers and musicians, and the natural world. Here are some examples of her relief prints featuring birds.
This relief print of a heron is only 10 cm high. It is a wood engraving, printed from a design cut into the end grain of a polished section of box wood.
This design of hornbills is a woodcut. The design is cut into the surface of a piece of wood and prints are then taken from the block. Some artists use a press, my mother printed by hand, placing a piece of paper on the inked block and burnishing it with a wooden spoon or something similar.
